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Introduchig Microsoft Excel
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It’s been said that outdoing the competition is relatively easy.
Outdoing yourself is the hard part.

We couldn’t agr^ more.

Case in point: Microsoft* Excel. Wetookthemostpowerful,
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It lets you customize your
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And since customization is
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Microsoft Excd 1.5 also gives you full color support for the
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We’ve even built Microsoft Excel 1.5 to take advantage of
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MACWORLD

September 1 988 The Macintosh® Magazine

Stay tuned as the Mac
enters videoland

(page 142 ) and see
how video publishing
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and the Macintosh
desktop. (Photo by
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Departments

Mac Bulletin

Late-breaking news.

David Bunnell
Letters

Commentary^Jerry Borrell

Steven Levy

Verbatim

Author Danny Goodman shares his
HyperCard wish list.

New Products

A quick look at new Macintosh
software, hardware, and accessories.

How To/Quick Tips

Automatic highlighting in HyperCard,
fixing modem voice transmission,
double-sided printing, and more.

295 How To/Getting Started with Data
Exchange

Learn how to translate foreign formats
for painless file swapping.

317 How To/Insights on dBase Mac

Tips for faster performance, a passel of
procedures, and more.

335 How To/Mac HyperCard Tools

15 choice XCMDs — HyperTalk
extensions that add power to your
stacks.

349 A Guide to Macintosh User Groups
393 Updates

The latest software upgrade news.

427 Where to Buy

Contact information for products in
this issue.

440 Best-Sellers

117 Macworld News

■ Stacking Up Candidates at ABC
A HyperCard stack helps Peter
Jennings cover the ’88 campaign.

■ Math Power on the Mac A potent
calculation tool for scientists and
engineers.

■ Virus Remedies Protecting your Mac
from deadly infections.

■ New Era in Storage ROEM —
removable, optical, erasable media for
storage gluttons.

Plus, Pixar sets a 3-D graphics stan-
dard, paint your own color business
cards, Novell’s new Mac network,
and more.

2 September 1988

Reviews

Time up your artwork
with LaserPaint Color
ll (page 228 ).

Features

142 Coming Soon to a Monitor Near You

Find out what it takes to produce
professional-quality videotapes on
the Mac.

150 Paint Roundup

A brush with eight low-cost graphics
programs.

160 The (D)A Team

From our extensive editorial survey,
here’s our lineup of the 15 most use-
ful DAs.

166 Who Keeps the Books?

Let our buyer’s guide to 21 account-
ing packages point you in the right
direction.

182 Drawing the Line

Pen plotters are still the best output
option for large-size color drawings.
Which is the right one for you?

192 World-Class Macintosh

Our readers choose their dream
machine — the best Mac hardware
and software.

206 Very Professional

FullWrite with DTP features.

208 Background Communicator

Microphone II communications.

210 A Quick Mac Fox

FoxBase relational database.

214 PageMaker: Staying Ahead

Version 3.0 page layout.

216 What, No Icons?

MPW shell for developers.

220 45 Marvelous MBs

DataPak removable hard disk.

220 Courseware to Go

Course of Action authoring system.

224 Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks

SoftPC IBM POXT emulator.

226 Almost Fun Backups

Redux backup program.

228 Power the Hard Way

LaserPaint color graphics.

230 Acceler-rating

DoubleTime-l6 and SpeedCard SE.

232 Color for the SE?

ColorVue video card.

236 Quicken Easy Finances

Personal finance manager.

238 Express (Yourself) Mail

Postcards clip-art card designer.

240 Getting Your Books in Order

Pro-Cite bibliographic management.

242 Hard Copy for HyperCard

HyperCard report program.

244 Call Me

MacNet communications network.

246 Tracing Your Roots

Three genealogy programs.

248 A Window on DOS

Mac+PC SE board runs DOS.

252 Window Shopping

A column chock-full of quality
programs and peripherals.

Macworld.

GraphistPaint II, a
new color graphics
program from Aha

Software, is just one of
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Editorial

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Managing Editor: Charles Barrett

Senior Editor: hdv\ 2 x\ Mello

Editorial Manager :]73x\e Lagas

Associate Editors: Gil Davis, Nancy E. Dunn,

Valerie L. Kuletz Joe Matazzoni, Cheryl Spencer

East Coast Editor: Brita Meng

Assistant Editors: Cathy E. Abes, Mark Hurlow

Acting Senior Copy* Editor: Katherine L. Ulrich

Copy Editors: Emily Bower, William Freais,

Richard Johnson, Felicity O’Meara,

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Editorial Assistant: Liza Weiman
Editorial Administrative Assistant:

Cynthia J. Meade

Administrative Assistant: Sharon Roe
Contributing Editors: Robert C. Eckhardt,
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Bruce F. Webster

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Tom Morgan, Michael Sumner

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Editorial Production Manager: Ellyn L. Hament
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Director: Cheryl Woodard
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Market Analyst: Dusty Roady Pedersen
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Employee Relations Manager: Shelly Ginenthal
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News from Apple

^ Apple has announced
new versions of AppleShare
File Server and AppleShare
Print Server, along with news
about a Mac Plus bug, and
problems to be found in older
Mac II monitors.

Version 2.0 of the Apple-
Share File Server improves
server administration, start-
up time, security of data, ap-
plications, and user informa-
tion. AppleShare Print Server
now concurrently supports
up to five printers when run-
ning with AppleShare File
Server on the same Macintosh
server. Users can continue to
work while documents are
printing, and they can make
changes in the print queue.
AppleShare Print Server can
be accessed from an Apple
lie, an Apple IIGS, a Macin-
tosh, or an MS-DOS computer
on a network.

If your Mac Plus hangs on
start-up when connected to
a SCSI device, like a hard
drive or tape backup, you may
have the original 128K ROM,
which has problems that have
since been corrected in re-
vised ROM versions. To work
around the problem, power
up the SCSI device or discon-
nect it.

You can check the ROM on
a Plus by pressing the inter-
rupt switch on the program-
mer s switch and then typing
DM 400000. If the third byte
value displayed is EA, you
have a revised ROM, but if it’s
EE, you have the original 128K
ROM. TVpe G to return.

Some early High-Res RGB
Monitors for the Mac II may
exhibit a shimmer or jitter
lasting up to 90 seconds dur-
ing the first 20 minutes after

the monitor has been turned
on. Those trained in adjusting
the Vertical Hold (normally
factory preset) can adjust that
or exchange the main logic
board. If your Mac II’s war-
ranty has expired, Apple pro-
vides an extension program
that offers free repairs. For
further information, see your
Apple dealer.

► Nashoba Systems has up-
graded FileMaker Plus, which
reportedly has 45 percent of
the Mac database market, to
FileMaker 4, with the addition
of multiuser functionality and
more than 50 enhancements.
This upgrade provides more
numerical calculations such
as running totals, running
counts, weighted averages,
fractions of totals, and frac-
tions of subtotals. Also added
are various report-layout func-
tions such as magnetic grid
pattern, T-squares, and the
ability to change font type,
size, and style within fields.

Filemaker 4 will run on
Mac networks, with or with-
out a file server, and is tar-
geted at small- to medium-
size businesses that need to
compile, publish, or share
lists of information. The pro-
gram supports multiple levels
of password protection and al-
lows creation of confidential
files. FileMaker 4 lists at
$299.99 for a single user, and
$599.99 for a four-user pack.
For further information,
call Nashoba Systems at
415/578-1970.

Modern Jazz
Discontinued

^ After fighting an uphill
battle against shipping delays
and bugs, Lotus Development
Corporation has decided to
discontinue further work on
Modern Jazz and concentrate
on developing 1-2-3 for the
Mac. The company will, how-
ever, continue to support and
offer Jazz version LA.

A thorough review of Mac
development efforts deter-
mined that Modern Jazz no
longer fits into Lotus’s long-
term product strategy. Despite
the shelving of Modern Jazz,
Lotus is committed to devel-
oping software for the Mac.

Master Piece,
System Saver, and
Mouse

► Kensington Microware
has two new products. Mas-
ter Piece Mac II and System
Saver SE.

Master Piece Mac II Ls a
power control center that or-
ganizes the Mac II’s power
with a special computer outlet
and four peripheral oudets.
They each have individual
and master switching, all pro-
tected by surge suppression
and EMI/RFI noise filtering.

The power center also pro-
vides modem/telephone line
surge suppression circuitry
through two RJII modular
phone jacks, to protect mo-
dems from electrical distur-
bances that occur on phone
lines. Master Piece Mac II also
offers a swivel to alter monitor
viewing angle, all for a list
price of $159.95.

Popular Database
Goes Multiuser

System Saver SE is a similar
product for the Mac SE, offer-
ing the same surge protection
and a choice of one or two
front-mounted power switches
to control system power. It re-
places the Mac’s powder cord,
has two outlets for peripher-
als, and lists for $79.95.

Another new Kensington
product is the $169.95 Turbo
Mouse ADB with two buttons.
One button offers the normal
mouse clicks while the other
performs six common func-
tions: Save, Print, Open,

Close, New, and Quit. For fur-
tlier information, call Ken-
sington Microware at
212/475-5200.

Tektronix

Emulation

► Grafpoint, a company
that specializes in Tektronix
graphics terminal emulation
software, is making color
graphics software available
for the Mac II that was previ-
ously available only for MS-
DOS computers.

TGRAF-07 can display 16
colors concurrently with a
resolution of 640 by 480;
TGRAF-15LF has the same res-
olution but can display up to
256 colors simultaneously.

TGRAF-07 (Tektronix 4107
emulation) sells for $995
while the TGRAF-15LR (Tek-
tronix 4115 emulation) retails
at $1495. For further informa-
tion, call Grafpoint at
408/446-1919.

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Mac Bulletin

Users Ultimate
Winners of Contest

► A MacHack contest held
in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was
won by Allan Foster of Port-
land, Oregon, for two INITs:
SFV^olMenu and RearWindow.
SFVolMenu puts a pop-up
menu with a list of drives/
volumes where the Drive but-
ton usually is, for example in
any Open dialog box. Rear-
Window lets you drag an icon
from one window in the Find-
er to another without chang-
ing the window order.

Jay Zipnick s Dumbo, a de-
tailed animation application
running under MultiFinder,
won second prize. Third place
went to OverTime, a perma-
nant clock/date box that can
be moved around the Mac
screen, written by Darin Adler
and Sean Parent. The fourth
place finisher, a useful F-key
from Bill Johnson and Ron
Duritsch called Slider, allows
you to grab several or all Mac
windows at once and move
them in unison. Fifth place
went to Shrink Windows by
Shane Looker, a program that
does exactly what its name
suggests.

Watch for most of these
winning programs to start ap-
pearing as public domain
software on bulletin boards
around the country. Unfor-
tunately, Zipnick can't distrib-
ute his Dumbo program
because the rights to the
Dumbo character are owned
by Walt Disney.

8mm Tape Backup

^ Genius’s high-speed 2.2-
gigabyte Mac tape backup
drive, 2Gig, which uses inex-
pensive 8mm videotape car-
tridges, can move data at 15
megabytes per second, with a
burst speed of 1.5MB per
second.

The new $4995 tape drive
can exchange tapes with simi-
lar backup systems for DEC’S
VAX minicomputers and Sun
Microsystems’ workstations,
and it will be especially useful
for backing up network file
servers or for storing large
files like color images.

Backup and restore soft-
ware will be included with
2Gig, along with utilities for
reading and writing data in
non-Mac formats. Other 8mm
tape drive manufacturers are
PCPC, Jasmine, and Abaton.
For further information, call
Genius at 818/905-0922.

Shares Screen
Across Many Miles

^ WOS Data Systems,
which recently merged with
Farallon, is now offering
two unique communication
products: Katmandu and
Timbuktu.

Timbuktu is a desk acces-
sory tliat lets Macintosh users
view and operate each other’s
computers on AppleTalk. It
allows a host’s screen to be
displayed on a guest user’s
screen. A guest’s mouse and
keyboard can be used to op-
erate the host’s computer di-
recdy. Through password pro-
tection, each user controls
who can connect to his or her
computer. The Timbuktu
package runs on the Mac
512KE and later models, and
retails at $99.95 for one user,
$189.50 for two, and $495
for six.

Katmandu enables you to
record screen images of a Mac
session and tlien play them
back to do things like demon-
strate applications, teach spe-
cial features to Mac users, or
show a series of illustrations.
Katmandu’s looping tape fea-

ture can also play a repeating
message.

HyperCard users without
Katmandu can play tapes re-
corded with Katmandu by
using an XFCN included with
the product. Katmandu is
available for the Mac 512KE
and later models for $99.95.
For further information, call
WOS Data Systems at
913/843-8101.

Mainframes Get
Closer

► Mainframe information
could become much more
useful to Mac users following
Apple’s acquisition of Orion
Network Systems of Berkeley,
California, as a wholly owned
subsidiary.

Orion, which markets IBM-
compatible Systems Network
Architecture software, worked
with Apple to develop Mac-
AFPC, the software imple-
mentation of two key IBM
SNA protocols that became
available earlier this year, Log-
ical Unit 6.2 and Physical Unit
2.1. The product lets Mac ap-
plications communicate with
IBM and compatible main-
frcimes, minicomputers,
and PCs.

Meanwhile, Apple’s soft-
ware spin-off, Claris, may
soon compete with Microsoft
Word and PageMaker, thanks
to its recent purchase of high-
end word processor technol-
ogy from Quark International.

TWo from France

► Two applications from
France could turn the heads
of graphic designers and ar-
chitects. Architects will be es-
pecially interested in Gim-
eor’s Mac Architrion, which
integrates 3-D designs with
2-D elevations and a database
that keeps track of every ele-
ment for later calculations and

generation of bills of mate-
rials. A demonstration disk
shows how the program
builds structures beginning
with blocks rather than 2-D
elements like thin walls.

Graphic designers will find
that Aba Software’s Graphist-
Paint Il-Color (a US. name
hadn’t been chosen at press
time) goes beyond normal
color painting capabilities to
offer many sophisticated edit-
ing tools. For instance, any
range of colors can be re-
placed with any other, or with
any image. This and other
tools make GraphistPaint
Il-Color into an image
processor.

For further information,
call Gimeor at 202/223-
4373 or Aba Software at
213/644-3580.

Second HyperCard
Book

► Danny Goodman,
HyperCard Developer's
Guide is a 550-page tome,
useful to serious-minded
HyperCard stack developers
working in corporate, aca-
demic, commercial, share-
ware, or public domain envi-
ronments. The 30-chapter
book di.scusses overall stack
design, thorny HyperTalk
problems, and expansion of
HyperCard capabilities using
external resources.

This book includes three
new XCMDs as examples of
external codes to help other
developers write their own
XCMDs. Available now for
$24.95, Danny Goodman's
HyperCard Developer's
Guide is published by
Bantam Books.

16 September 1988

Reflex Plus can show
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It’s easy to customize your output
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tions or data entry screens— Reflex
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Mac Bulletin

Ten Times Faster
than LocalTalk

^ Actinet Systems’ high-
speed 32-bit ARCNet card for
the Mac II increases network
transmission to ten times
faster than LocalTalk.

The NuBus card, called
Actinet II, uses a 2.5-megabit
token-passing scheme that al-
lows stations to be positioned
20,000 feet apart. It also in-
cludes a software driver that
runs both AppleShare and
Novell’s Advanced NetWare.

Actinet II retails for $695.
Actinet also markets Actinet
SE. For further information,
call Actinet Svstems at
415/326-1321.'

Connecting Macs
to High-End
Publishing

^ Two companies have an-
nounced Macintosh interfaces
between their products and
high-end page production
programs.

Quark has announced
interfaces between Quark
XPress and Software Consult-
ing Services’ (SCS) Layout-
8000 and SCS-8000 news-
paper page-dummying sys-
tems. Although pricing has yet
to be announced, using
Quark XPress with the SCS
products will reportedly save
users 30 percent of the
$50,000-per-workstation cost
of proprietary systems.

Unda has announced its in-
terface between Unda Color
Design and Production Sys-
tem and the Mac. With the in-
terface, the Sun workstation-
based Unda system, which
combines color, page design,
and prepress production ca-
pabilities, will enable de-
signers to create comps and
final four-color continuous

tone or spot-color separations
on the Mac II. The interface
will allow the import of color
images in encapsulated Post-
Script (EPS) or PICT 2 formats
used in programs like Illustra-
tor 88, FreeHand, and Pixel-
Paint. For further information,
call Quark at 303/934-2211,
SCS at 215/837-8484, or Unda
at 212/605-0460.

Apple Acquires
Corporate
DP Access

^ Network Innovations,
a new Apple subsidiary, is
developing CL/1 — one of the
first connectivity languages
for building desktop-to-data-
processing applications — for
the Macintosh. The company’s
goal is to make the language a
plug-and-play alternative for
corporate data processing
systems.

Unlike terminal emulations
that put a Mac front end on a
DP application, CL/1 puts a DP
access back-end on a Mac ap-
plication. Currently, CL/1 is
like a device driver you would
install in the System file.

Industry watchers predict
that CL/1 will eventually be
added to Mac System soft-
w'are, may become part of
the Mac operating system,
and may even be embedded
into dec’s VAX operating
system.

Virtual Image
Shows Tsvo
Newspaper Pages

^ With the new 21-inch
monochrome monitor from
E-Machines, you can display
virtual monochrome images
in a layout as large as two
newspaper pages.

The Z-21 displays a 12-by-l6-
inch viewable area — said to
be the largest available in a
21-inch monitor. Tivo resolu-
tions are offered: 72 and 80
dots per inch (dpi). At 80 dpi,
users can see 1280 by 960 pix-
els, enough to view two A4
pages, including margins.
When using the Macintosh
standard screen resolution of
72 dpi, users see 1152 by 864
pixels.

Using a video-RAM upgrade
which plugs into a specially
designed E-Machines video
board, the Z-21 can be config-
ured to display 8-bit, gray-
scale images at either resolu-
tion or on very large virtual
screens. The 21-inch monitor
is also configured to be espe-
cially compact, according to a
company spokesperson. The
Z-21 monitor is expected to
be available in quantity by Oc-
tober. No price has been set.

Moving to
System 6.0

^ Apple’s recent System 6.0
release may not yet offer
true multitasking, but it has
enough new features and im-
provements to justify an up-
grade for those w^ho have the
required 1MB of memory.

Installation If the share-
ware version of Andy Herz-
feld’s Quickergraf is already
installed in your System
Folder, remove it before in-
stalling System 6.0’s version of
Quickergraf, which speeds up
the drawing of color screens
by about three times. If you
don’t, accidental selection of
the shareware version will
most likely crash your system.

Power Feature System 6.0’s
nicest addition by far is Macro-
Maker, a utility you can use
to create local or global mac-
ros of keyboard and mouse
commands. MacroMaker’s
tape recorder metaphor is

cleanly implemented. Click-
ing on the icon brings up a
menu designed to resemble a
tape recorder complete with
record, play, store, load, and
erase buttons. For users who
have always wanted to auto-
mate repetitive tasks but
haven’t wanted to tackle Quic-
Keys or Tempo, MacroMaker
alone makes the upgrade to
6.0 worthwhile. (But for those
who need macros to carry out
complicated or time-sensitive
operations, it’s best to order
QuickKeys or Tempo.)

Better MultiFinder Apple
has also eliminated some of
the minor annoyances that
marred the otherwise effi-
cient MultiFinder. For one
thing, when you double-click
a document on the desktop to
open it, and the application
you used to create it is already
open, you no longer get a
taunting dialog box. Instead,
the document actually opens.
In addition, MultiFinder now
notifies you when back-
ground tasks need attention-
— no more surprise printer
paper jams.

More Utilities System 6.0
offers a couple of other pleas-
ant surprises. Closeview is a
screen-magnifying utility that
displays a rectangular frame
that follows the cursor’s
movement. You specify any-
where from 2- to 16-times
magnification and the area in
the rectangle fills the screen.
CloseView does slow tlie sys-
tem, however, especially un-
der MultiFinder or when used
with more than eight colors or
gray levels.

Map is a customizable util-
ity that lets you find the time
and distance between loca-
tions worldwide. This poten-
tially great learning tool
comes with preset coordi-
nates for some of the world’s

(continues)

20 September 1988

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largest cities, and you can add
and remove cities.

Unlimited Fonts Changes
to the LaserWriter Page Set-
up dialog box now include
choosing smoothing for bit-
mapped text and/or graphics,
and unlimited downloadable
fonts in a document (you are
no longer limited by available
memory). The trick here is to
avoid getting so font-happy
that your printing slows to a
crawl. Finally, the dialog box
supports postscript printers
that allow ll-by-17-inch paper.

Network Upgrades Other
new features include Re-
sponder, a program that
works with InterPol (the
AppleTalk Network Adminis-
trator’s Utility) to help ease
network communications.

The Apple HD SC Setup can
now be used to divide a hard
disk into partitions for other
operating systems such as
UNIX, and the PrintMonitor
offers a wider variety of op-
tions. For instance, you can
display the PrintMonitor win-
dow on the desktop when
printing or access it through
the Apple menu; you choose
how to display the printing
error warning and how
(and even if) you want to be
alerted when a manual-feed
job starts.

Getting It A System 6.0 up-
grade, however, is definitely
worth the trouble of sorting
out any little bugs. If you pur-
chased a Mac, an earlier
stand-alone version of System
software, or HyperCard
between May 13, 1988, and
August 5, 1988, you can
receive a free upgrade. Up-
dates are expected to be avail-
able free through user groups,
bulletin boards, and from Ap-
ple dealers. If you can’t find a
free upgrade, you can always
find System 6.0 on retail
shelves for $49, complete with
manual.

System 6.0
Compatibility

^ The following software
programs have been tested by
Macworld Lab, and their ma-
jor functions have been found
compatible with System 6.0:
Microsoft Word 3 02, Page-
Maker 30, Microphone II,
Tlirbo Pascal 1.1, MacWrite 5.0,
MacPaint 2.0, MacDraw 1.9.5,
MacDraw II, Appointment
Diary 2.5, SuperPaint 1.1, Mac-
Project II, AppleLink 4.0, and
NetSerial.

But some other popular
programs have problems with
the new^ System. For instance,
MS Works 1.1 is incompatible
with MacroMaker. Using Mac-
roMaker leaves unreadable
characters to the left of the
Works menu — clicking on
those characters scrambles
the screen. A patch program is
now on CompuServe.

Versions of Microsoft Excel
earlier than 1.06 have prob-
lems with System 6.0, and
there’s no patching program.
(Microsoft recommends up-
grading to version 1.5).

When used with System 6.0,
FullWrite Professional 1.0 un-
expectedly converts a regular
document into a thesaurus
or dictionary file. To work
around this, put FWP’s dic-
tionary and thesaurus into
a folder and place it in the
deepest level of the FWP
folder. A replacement disk will
be sent to all registered users.

4th Dimension 1.04 gives a
system error when you mod-
ify the Layout in the Layout
Editor. Also, Shut Down can-
not be performed under Mul-
tiFinder when 4D is open.

Trapeze 2.0 doesn’t support
some date formats — a fix is in
the works.

MacCalc bombs during
launch — a patch is on MacNet
and CompuServe.

VideoWorks II 2.0 peri-
odically stops during video
playback. Unchecking the
multitasking box under
Preferences clears up the
problem.

Smart Alarm won’t work
with MacroMaker. An upgrade
will be sent to registered
users.

Beyond Dark Castle works
on a Mac II, but has problems
running on a Mac Plus. Dark
Castle and Apache Strike don’t
work with System 6.0.

ConcertWareH- version 4
doesn’t run with CloseView.

To fix it, either remove Close-
View or call Great Wave Soft-
ware for a free upgrade.

QuicKeys 1.1 only recog-
nizes three of its own eight
date/time formats.

Dollars and Sense 4.1
crashes with System 6.0.
Contact Monogram Software
at 213/533-5120 for more
information.

Several pieces of hardware
also have problems with Sys-
tem 6.0: CMS’s hard disk for
the Mac Plus hangs up during
booting, and Jasmine’s Mega-
Drive can’t initialize a disk
with System 6.0. Both compa-
nies are working on fixes.

Other products reported
by their developers to w^ork
with System 6.0, include:
Illustrator 88, ReadySetGo

4.0, DeskTop Express 1.0,

Dow Jones Market Manager
Plus 2.01, PictureBase 1.2.3,
MathView 1.0, ComServe 1.0,
Straight Talk 2.08, MacSpin 1.5,
VersaTerm Pro 2.20, Statview
512+ 1.2, Spellswell 2.0F,
SmartCom II 3.0b, SmartScrap
and The Clipper, PowerPoint

2.0, Canvas 1.01, Font/DAJug-
gler+, Digital Darkroom, Su-
per 3D, and Quark XPress 1.11.

The Jury’s Still Out
on System 6.0

^ Apple’s recent system
software release, System 6.0,
has received rather mixed re-
views from Mac users and de-
velopers alike. Even Apple
Canada has declined to desig-
nate System 6.0 as an official
system upgrade, calling it “a
temporary system.”

Among the complaints are
sound problems on the Mac
Plus and SE, and color limita-
tions on the Mac II. There are
also print problems and appli-
cation incompatibilities with
a new feature called Macro-
Maker. In addition, no new
ImageWriter LQ drivers were
included with the release.

To “fix a few bugs that , , .
are causing serious prob-
lems,” Apple released version
6.01 of the System file in July.
The new System file and new
ImageWriter LQ drivers will
be included in the Macintosh
System Software Update ver-
sion 6.0. (System 6.01 will be-
come the official System up-
grade for Apple Canada.)

The new System file, how-
ever, w^on’t fix all the prob-
lems being experienced. Ap-
ple cautions that the overall
incompatibility with third-
party applications will proba-
bly remain. According to tests
performed at Appl^ many ap-
plications exhibiting prob-
lems under System 6.0 also
suffer compatibility problems
with System 5.0. Thus, many
application developers may
have to update their pro-
grams to make them fully
compatible with the new
System. □

24 September 1988

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Much Ado about OS/2

Apple should quit
its lawsuit while ifs
ahead. It has nothing
to fear from OS/2, and
everything to gain
by making further
inroads in the
business market.

In my opinion, Apple Computer s lawsuit
against Microsoft Corporation and Hewlett-
Packard, for allegedly infringing on the
Mac screen display copyright, is totally
unnecessary.

Why? Because the OS/2 Presentation »
Manager, which Microsoft is developing for
IBM, is not much of a threat to the Macin-
tosh. And neither is Hewlett-Packard's New
Wave. Apple s fear is way out of proportion
on this one.

The fact is there is currently no major
new software that runs under OS/2. That
means Apple has at least a two-year lead on
IBM in its interface technology and in inno-
vative application software.

There are other factors in Apple's
favor as well. One is the current shortage
— and the artificially inflated price —
of dynamic random access memory, or
DRAM, chips.

In 1986, 1 predicted that the United
States-Japan semiconductor agreement,
which set a so-called fair price on the
chips, would inflate memory prices and
slow down the growth of the industry.

Unfortunately, 1 was proven right. Be-
cause of that pact, the price difference be-
tween United States and Japanese chip
prices has widened. A year ago, for exam-
ple, 256 k dram chips sold for about 50
percent less in the US. than they do toda\'.
In Japan, the price has increased more
slowly over the same period — b\' 30
percent.

To use OS/2, you need at least two
megabytes of random access memory
(RAM). Most PC users only have 640K. At
current rates, the cost of upgrading a PC to
run OS/2 is going to be about $2500. Most
PC users won’t want to spend that kind of
money, especially when OS/2 really has no
perceived value. It will be at least three or
four years before there’s enough excite-
ment about OS/2 and the Presentation
Manager to make people want to buy tliose
machines in sufficient quantities to make
them a new^ standard.

Meanwhile, the Macintosh is here
now. People are going to get tired of wait-
ing for OS/2. For one thing, they'll have to

wait longer than they anticipated because
of the usual technical difficulties, which is
normal. And actual implementation of
OS/2 will be delayed even more because
of the shortage of DRAM chips, thanks to
that semiconductor accord.

Furthermore, there is much confusion
in the IBM marketplace, because compa-
nies don’t know wliether to develop OS/2
applications for 80286-based AT-compati-
ble machines, or to wait until Microsoft
comes out with a new OS/2 that works
solely on 80386 machines. Developers are
also confused about whether they should
develop applications for Microsoft Win-
dows now, or wait for the OS/2 Presenta-
tion Manager. Some are even questioning
whether they should bother to develop
programs under MS-DOS.

All this confusion is bound to slow
down the development of an>' meaningful
application software under OS/2, which
will enable Apple to firmly establish itself
in the corporate marketplace.

Then, when the Presentation Manager
finally appears, it will actually stimulate
software development for the Macintosh.
Why? Because it will be a cinch to port
Windows and Presentation Manager-
created software over to the Macintosh.

There will undoubtedly be a lot of file
compatibility between the two systems,
too. We already have products like Excel
and PageMaker that run under both the
Macintosh operating system and MS-DOS.
As files are transferred more easily from PC
to Mac, Apple will become even more of a
presence in the field than it is now.

If Apple w^ould call this battle off now,
there wouldn’t have to be any losers. I
think the consumers, developers, stock-
holders, and employees of all three com-
panies — Apple, Microsoft, and Hewlett-
Packard — deserve a break. Apple should
quit worrying whether the Presentation
Manager will steal the Mac’s glory and con-
centrate on developing a cheaper, faster
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6308 Troutmask Lane, Stillwater, Montana
A Memo On The Lures Of Trade

We ^ OntheFbf lures
want to ensure that the wily, sou^t-aftcr
creatures of the watery w(^ ate as
capdvated vnth our fishing customers as our
customers are with our fine lines of natural,
organic hand-tied flies. The line of lures we
offer this year «dll, indeed, reel in customers
as never iMore.

Tackle your fancy.

For the young ntmce angler looking to
launch the hobby with tamer gome, On the
Els. wilt offer a range of smaller, Ughter, less
intricate lures, such as the Peanut Piper, the
Pumpkin Puff,

the Weedy Wiggle and the Puddle Jumi^.
These lures are designed for ea^ handling,
both on and off the hook. For the reel man
who chums for larger catch, the new
additions to our 1989 product line include die
Chimmer Swizzler, the HnchDog Hghter,
the Man-Boy Behemoth and the Bras^
Bottom Bonanza. These additions for 1989,
plus the full line of tried.and.tmc On the Fly
lures are on the following pages.

Lure, line & sinker.

Our OntheFb authorized dealers have lone
been aware of both our io-stoie and customer
surooit services. This season is no dififerent.
In in addition to our advertising budget,

we banw plans to esmand our in-store displays
and re-pac^e the lures for ca^inventoiy
and handling.

1 PROJECTED SALES FOR 1989* 1

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BONANZA 1

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YES

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25K

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YES

5K

YES

YES

Hold the anchovies.

For our customers, we plan to initiate a toU-
hcc 800 number to widely distribute
inftmnation such as matching lure to fish,
bait tips and techniques, hot spots for fishing
and spawning cycles. With this service, the
fishing line of our market will always be
bu^.

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On The Fly

6308 Troutmask Lane, Stillwater. Montana

A Marketing Memo On The Lures Of Trade

‘ We at On the Flv lures want to
ensure that the wily, sought-after
creatures of the watery world are as capti-
vated with our fishing customers as our
customers are with our fine lines of
natural, organic hand-tied flies. The line
of lures we offer this year will, indeed,
reel in customers as never before.

Tackle your fancy.

For the young novice angler looking
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Electronic Trojan Horses

New App Stack, as described in Mac Bulle
tin (May 1988), sounds more like a Trojan
Horse program than a computer virus. A
virus can reproduce itself in other com-
puters — for example, by attaching to mes-
sages traveling over a network or slipping
onto a floppy disk. It must also he self-
executing so it can renew the cycle.

Like its 1 lomerian counterpart, a Tro-
jan Horse is an apparently friendly pro-
gram that, when invited into the unwary
aser s computer, will do something nasty.
But unlike a virus, a Trojan 1 lorse requires
active participation to run; it does not re-
produce or execute itself. As Cassandra
might have said w'ere she a Mac user, “Be-
ware of bulletin boards bearing gifts."

MikeUngle

Costa Mesa, Califor)tia

Corrections

Orbital Alecb (''Grarity at Play, "'April
1988) requires only 512K of RAM, not
1MB. To order, call Studio Zero's toll-free
number, 1-8001752-9222, ext. 933.

NYMUG's address C Users Priendly, " May
1988) is 688 Sixth Are., New York, NY
10010, 212/691-0496. Current member-
ship rates are $40 for the first year, $32
for renewals.

Apple Computer's ImageWriter LQ ( "Ap-
ple's Junior Business Printer, "May 1988)
retails for $1300.

The phone number for Techware, maker
of Utulerstanding PageMaker here to
YSuyJinw 1988), is 407/695-9000.

The phone number for Marklin, maker of
Digital Starter Set fMaavorld News, ///;/e
1988), is 414/784-8854.

A Blind Eye

Our product MacCalc was overlooked in
“Getting Started with Spreadsheets" Quh'
1988), although a number of MacCalc s ex-
clusive or unique features (including vari-
able row height, cell formatting in different
fonts and styles, and cell notation) were
mentioned without the proper attribution.
Also, all Mac spreadsheets use the IEEE
standard of 14 digits, not just Excel.

Richard A. Ross
Bravo Technologies
Berkeley, California

Although the column wasn't intended to
be an assessment of every Mac spread-
sheet, it should have contained some
references to MacCalc, especially regard-
ing the features you've mentUmed. We
regret the oversight. — Ed.

Manual Enhancement

Your review of our memory enhancement
product, MacSnap Plus 2 (“1L\M Cram,"
April 1988), provided accurate technical
information but found our installation

manual lacking. We Ve responded to con-
structive criticism from our customers and
reviewers by completely updating our
documentation.

E. Kyle Tyner

Dove Computer Corporation

The new manual is much improved. Not
only is it well organized, but the installa-
tion procedures are accotnpanied by illu-
minating illustrations. — Ed.

Vaporware Headaches

Relying on advertised vaporware (Steven
Levy’s column, “The Vapor Papers,” April
1988) can cause major headaches — and
not just when it comes to software. Case
in point: AST’s advertising of the Mac86
card for the SE. We purchased an SE for
our counseling center in November 1987,
counting on AST to deliver the Mac86 and
Mac286 cards promptly (reportedly due in
October). First the release date was set

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Corrections

What You Saw Is
Not What You Get

Sample output
from TechScriher
— a modular
WYSIWYG docu-
ment processor
from Mansfield
Systems — as it
should have looked
in our July Mac-
world News section
(page 77).

back to December, then January 1988, then
March, and we’re still waiting for this vital
part of our system.

Davids. Bridgeman

Salt Lake City, Utah

According to AST, the delayed Mac86
card is now scheduled to ship in the fall of
1988. AST's Product Information Group
(7141863-9991) provides updates on
availability of current and future prod-
ucts. The company also has a BBS (714/
660-9175) where you can post technical
and other questions about AST's Apple
products. — Ed.

Suppressing the Surge

Your recent review of surge suppressors
(“They Can’t Hurt,” May 1988) overlooked
our company, a leading supplier of power
equipment. The review also stated that
surge suppressors can’t protect against
brownouts; yet some Panamax devices
(and no doubt some from other suppliers)
do just that.

Henry Moody

Panamax

San Rafael, California

Units with brownout protectioti typically
turn off power to your drives during a
voltage drop; they'll protect your hard-
ware but probably not your data. In an
area where electrical disturbances are
common, you 're better off buying an un-
interruptible power supply that regulates
i 'oltage flow. — Ed.

Unable to Relate

After reading your review* of Borland’s
Reflex Plus (“Learning to Relate,” March
1988), 1 purchased the program. Far from
agreeing that “simplicity is its key virtue,” I
found it the most complicated and confus-
ing Mac software I’d ever seen. Also, I was
unable to change my data after entering it
(Undo was dimmed about 99 percent of
the time).

Walter Malmrose
via CompuServe

Reflex Plus is not a good choice for first-
time database users, but then no rela-
tional database is likely to be. Because of
Reflex's difficulties with changing records
and Undo, it's also far from ideal for
those with heavy data-entry demands.

For a comparison of some easy-to-use file
managers, see "Data Basics" in our June
1988 issue.— Ed.

Designer Teamwork

To correct some inaccuracies in “Shape of
Things to Come” (Macworld News, April
1988 ): Apple w^as a client of Frogdesign’s,
not of Steven Peart’s. Peart w'as only one
member of the team responsible for indus-
trial design of Apple products. Brad Bissell
w’as responsible for the keycap graphics,
Sigmar Willnauer designed the Macintosh
monitor, and I designed the Apple key-
boards, the IIGS, and other peripherals.
Anthony Guido
That

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From AppleWorks to MS Works

How can I translate word processing,
spreadsheet, and database text files from
AppleWorks into Microsoft Word, Works,
and Excel files?

Paul Cbevertojj
San Diego, California

If your Apple IIC uses 5^/ 2 -incb disks, you
can translate AppleWorks spreadsheet
and word processing files usmg Apple File
Exchange with conversion documents
for AppleWorks. You can get these docu-
ments by sending $4 to MaeSLUG, RO.

Box 6462, Kent, WA 98064-6462. For
more mformation on file translatiojt, see
"Getting Started with Data Exchange'' in
this issue. — Ed.

More User Groups

I enjoyed your user group article (“Users
Friendly,” May 1988) but was surprised to
find no mention of A.P.P.L.E. Co-op, the old-
est national Apple user group. Our Mac
membership is over 2000 — out of a total of
over 10,000. We offer a public domain soft-
ware library, a technical hotline, a multiline
BBS, and a monthly magazine — all for an
annual membership fee of $26. You can
contact us at 290 S.W 43rd St,, Seattle, WA
98055, 206/251-5222.

Frank Catalano
A.P.P.L.E. Co-op
Seattle, Washington

Sorry we missed you. See our Directory of
Macintosh User Groups in this issue, for a
more comprehensive list than the sam-
pling we presented in May. — Ed.

Neglected Fonts

Our LaserPerfect Fonts were not men-
tioned in “Fit to Print” (April 1988). They
come with invisible nonplain screen fonts,
obviating the ResEdit gymnastics de-
scribed in the sidebar. Also, our LaserPer-
fect Fractions provide an excellent solution
for creating fractions. Finally, all LaserPer-
fect Fonts come with a free copy of CE Soft-
ware s LaserStatus utility.

Michael Ross
NeoScrihe International

NeoScribe (P.O. Box 633, East Haven, CT
06512, 2031467-9880) offers some excel-
lent fonts, including display capitals to
complement Palatino; old-style numerals
for Adobe's Bodoni, New Baskerville, and
Galliard; and several display and spe-

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custom fonts, characters, and logos.

Sorry about the omission. — Ed.

A Couple of Cards

Macworld News (May 1988) points out that
Orchid Technology’s ColorVue card for the
SE is “slow,” which is true in itself How-
ever, in conjunction with the Levco Prodigy
SE accelerator card, it provides an almost
instantaneous screen refresh rate. The
two cards were coupled in Second Wave’s
ExpanSE chassis, which has room for
two more cards. It was beautiful to see.
Niles Carter
Austin, Texas

Expressions of Protest

I was dismayed by your review of my pro-
gram, Expressionist (“A Trio of Equation
Editors,” April 1988). You claimed the pro-
gram has “few keyboard commands,” al-
though 45 are listed in the manual. You also
found the palette of 61 buttons “too clut-
tered,” while preferring MathType’s 180-
button palette. One of Expressionist’s
strongest advantages, its ease of use, was
not even mentioned. Finally, the review
appeared just on the verge of version
2.0’s release.

Allan Bonadio

Allan Bonadio Associates

San Francisco, California

We found many of Expressionist's mter-
face features obtrusive at times. In the re-
viewed version, we found only 14 key-
board commands related to typesetting
functions. Unfortunately, version 2.0 was
not available when the review was being
written. In spite of these flaws, we still
concluded that Expressionist is probably
the best choice for medium-duty individ-
ual users. — Ed.

Keeping Your Mac in Shape

1 have a Macintosh with a HyperDrive 20
internal hard disk. Is there any problem
with leaving it on for extended periods
of time? Since I’m running a BBS, it’s on
constantly.

Chris Chadilloti

Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada

We wouldn't recommend it. The beat gen-
erated by a constantly running internal
hard disk is likely to reduce the lifespati of
your Mac. — Ed.

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38 September 1988

Making The Right Choice
When Your Business Depends On It.

A. E. Buzz Jehle, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Online Resource Exchange, Inc.

uzz Jehle travels with his computers. When he visits a client like Texaco, Shell, or Sun, he must be
confident he can rely on his equipment. Online Resource Exchange, Inc. (ORE) specializes in assisting
major oil companies and large independents in the acquisitions and divestitures of oil and gas
producing properties. ORE continues to define the state of the art by using high technology to market
these mineral interests. Buzz takes his Macintosh Computers in the field to collect, organize and
analyze data on his clients’ properties for sale. He uses Mac SEs with Microtech Micro Mac internal
hard disks. Buzz comments why all his Mac SEs have Microtech drives:

“Our Information Systems Manager recommended the Microtech drives because of their automatic
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That Program Looks Familiar

In “A Familiar Face” {Letters, May 1988), a
reader commented on the “MacGwer” epi-
sode that featured an SE running a facial
composite program. WeVe glad someone
noticed, but it wasn’t Mac-A-Mug. It was our
program — CompuSketch.

Don Sumner
Visatex Corporation
Campbell, California

Mixed-up Fonts

After reading Steven Levy’s discerning
comments in the May 1988 issue, I would
like to put a stop to a self-perpetuating
myth. The type font, Times Roman (Times
New Roman, to be accurate), was not
named for the New York Times newspaper.

Times New Roman was developed for
the Times of London (England) in 1931 by
Stanley Morison, a typographic consultant
to British Monotype Corporation and the
Cambridge University Press.

The persistent misconception about
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tosh screen font, Geneva, wdiich becomes
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on the LaserWriter. That logic doesn’t hold
up when the screen font New York be-
comes (London) Times Roman. Perhaps
Macworld cm do a little research and find
out wiiat typeface is used for the New York
Times.

Robert L. Creager
Westerville, Ohio

The New York Times sets its type in a mod-
ified, copyrighted version of the typeface
Old English, which was made exclusively
for its own use. — Ed.

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Network (ICCUN), 206/525-1213. —Ed.

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Letters

Ironing Out Upgrade Problems

1 recently upgraded to a 512KE and then
upgraded to MacPaint 2.0 and MacWrite
5.0. 1 ran across a few problems that I
thought others might like to hear about.

The 512KE upgrade includes System
4.1 and Finder 5.5. They work fine on my
512KE with all my software except Mac-
Write 5.0 and MacPaint 2.0. When I use
MacWrite with System 4.1, the spelling
checker apparently copies the document
into the Clipboard before checking the
spelling. Then I get an error message
claiming that the Clipboard is too large to
transfer to other applications or for use by
any desk accessories. When started with
System 4.1, MacPaint 2.0 tells me that the
snapshot feature and the “magic eraser”
will not work due to insufficient memory. I
solved both of these problems by copying
System 3.2 to the disks. I also discovered
that MacPaint will not work with a very
large System file (lots of fonts and DAs)
on a 512KE.

Larry B. Macy
via CompuServe

Reinventing the Word Processor

WeVe all been waiting for the ultimate
word processor that leaves little to be de-
sired. I have used WordPerfect, FullWrite,
WriteNow, MindWrite, ReadySetGo, and
Microsoft Word. The time has come when
users can and should tell the market ex-
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market guess. Why? Because of HyperCard.
1 would like to see a grand competition for
the best user-interface design of the dream
word processor. Nonprogrammers can
make stacks that show exactly what they
want. If the winners are partly determined
by vote, in a fashion similar to your annual
“Best Mac Products” competition, the soft-
ware industry will have a clear idea of what
we want as well as what we don’t want.
Richard Bondi
via CompuServe

Conflicting Data

“Data Basics” Qune 1988) is riddled with
unfounded assumptions, contradictions,
and errors; it lacks understanding of the
subject as well as laboratory benchmarks.
Among other inequities, Charles Seiter
labels our product, IstDesk, “a loser”

(continues)

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Letters

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with limited mail merge capabilities; uses
Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet, to illustrate
a database; and quotes inaccurate perfor-
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We stand by our test results and conclu-
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Commentaryjerry Borrell

Is It Real, or Is It Beta?

A preview of the Macworld Expo

Since many of you won’t be able to attend
the expo in Boston, and since those of us
who do attend will be so busy that we’ll
miss many of the new product announce-
ments there, I offer up this preview of the
exposition.

Paint Software

Silicon Beach will be showing Super-
Paint 2.0; Dubl-Click Software will be there
with Wet-Paint, and Cricket Software will
finally demonstrate its paint program
publicly.

Among the color paint programs,
SuperMac’s thunder will be somwhat muf-
fled by PixelPaint’s two new competitors:
GraphistPaint II from Aba (developed in
France) and Photon Paint from Mediagenic
(formerly Activision). Both look great.
Letraset, another major contender, may
show its long-awaited color version of
Image Studio.

Draw Software

What about MacDraw II, you ask? Yes,
Virginia, it’s shipping. Claris left copies
with us in late June; now it’s on your deal-
ers’ shelves. Deneba’s Canvas and Aba’s
Draw It Again, Sam both have new features
that make them worth looking at again.
Adobe Illustrator and Aldus’s FreeHand,
now archrivals in illustration/drawing soft-
ware, are hard at it. Illustrator 88 began
shipping late in June. Its new features have
enabled Illustrator 88 to gain ground
against Freel land. Stay tuned.

Presentation Software

Never have so few owed so much to so
many. Sounds like a vintage wartime quota-
tion, or what the venture capitalists must
be saying about this category. What a battle.
The leading Mac programs — Cricket Pre-
sents, Microsoft PowerPoint, Aldus’s pro-
gram (unnamed at press time), Symantec/

Living Videotext Division’s More, and Man-
hattan Graphics’ ReadySetShow — are all
facing a host of new competitors from de-
velopers on the IBM PC side, including
Management Graphics, Slidetek, MagiCorp,
Strade, VBS, and Zenographics. There is
also a stalking horse in this field: MacDraw
II. MacDraw II boasts some new features,
including a plotter driver you can select

tageous features. Of course by the time Al-
dus ships its nameless program. Presents
will have new features too.

The presentation software market has
heated up faster than any other Macintosh
market. There are either too many com-
panies competing for the Mac’s installed
base — or this is going to be one big mar-
ket. (I think both are true.)

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color paint program,
GraphistPaint II, lets
you easily modify the
palette and attach im-
ages to a shape, as
on the sphere in this
example.

from the Chooser, that make it an ideal tool
for fast turnaround of color overhead
presentations.

For now. Cricket Presents has a defi-
nite lead in the market. It has been ship-
ping, it’s a good product, the templates are
useful, and the connection to the Auto-
graphix slide-production centers works.
PowerPoint 2.0 arrived in our office at
press time, so I haven’t tried it out yet, but
it looks good at trade show demos. Power-
Point’s requirement that its fully supported
service bureau, Genigraphics, rekey slide
input at its slide centers will prove trouble-
some, however. Both More and Aldus’s new
product have efficient outlining tools to
help create slides, along with other advan-

Image Processing

At long last Silicon Beach is shipping
Digital Darkroom. Silicon Beach has grown
so much that this product was long de-
layed, but it has some very interesting
printing features, such as an algorithm that
makes for high-quality printing on non-
PostScript laser printers. Check it out. It
complements rather than competes with
ImageStudio. ImageStudio 2.0 has some
very nice enhancements, such as the ability
to manipulate gray scale in individual re-
gions of an image. Definitely look at
this one, too.

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it suits you.

If you want to change
something or get a duplicate
original, you don Y have to go
back to the drawing board.

What could be easier?

Maybe if you could push a button labeled
“Sales Chart” and get a sales
chart, that would be easier.

But it wouldn’t be reality.

This is.

Presenting Adobe
Illustrator 88'” software.

A program so powerful, it
makes making art effortless.
Begin anywhere you like.
Like to start from scratch?

Just move the mouse to create an image on the
screen. Our new freehand tool makes it simpler
than ever.

Rather start with a rough sketch
or existing line art? No problem.

Adobe Illustrator 88 software lets
you scan all sorts of existing images
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Or let’s say you’ve been using other pro-
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The Adobe Illustrator
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MacDraw**’ files instantly.

Or auto trace your MacPaint®
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Maybe you want to do
more. A lot more.

Like airbrushing effects

and shading and masking and blending
and color separations and printing. But you
don’t know a thing about them.

That’s okay. Now you don’t have to.

All you have to know is where to buy
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Monitors

The news is in colon What with Apple
having announced specifications for 24-
bit QuickDraw late in the summer, both
RasterOps and SuperMac are back at the
drawing board working on 24-bit color
cards. They'll be previewing boards in
progress at the expo. Among the new 8-bit
color pla\ers are E-Machines and Radius;
both deserve a visit.

Video

And in related developments, Apple
has announced NTSC video for its video
card. We can now look forward to being
able to record from the Mac onto video-
tape, which will be a boon to video pro-
duction, special effects, and animation
producers. Look for this addition to the
standard Apple video card this fall.

Cameras/Film Recorders

Hmmm. Don’t make any unsecured
loans on these things. The new product
from Presentation Technologies looks very
good, though, and it’s a sure thing. Laser-
graphics also has a shippable camera.
Mirus’s film recorder is still under develop-
ment, AWOL, at press time.

Computer-Aided Design

The big news in CAD comes from two
relatively new companies. Paracomp, here
in San Francisco, has two outstanding new
offerings: ModelShop and Swivel. Swivel, in
particular, will serve as a pow^erful design-
modeling system. You’d use it to create
complex 3-D objects for design or anima-
tion. In addition to being a facile modeler,
it allows for fast shading of objects.

Gimeor, a French firm, is now' selling
Mac Architrion, a 3-D modeling product
aimed at the architectural market in this
country. Gimeor is implementing and
should be showing a color rendering addi-
tion to its package. Sadly, Silicon Beach’s
Super 3D is still not shipping in color.

Communications and E-Mail

One of the most important changes in
the Macintosh community is taking place
in Berkeley, California, at Farallon Comput-
ing. The company, w'hich recently merged
with WOS Computing, is addressing a host
of technology areas for the Mac E-mail,
remote and distributed processing on per-

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WITH THE MIRUS DIGITAL FILMPRINTER
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If you use a Macintosh, you already know how
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The Mirus™ Desktop Digital
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The first slidemaking system
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Before the Mirus FilmPrinter, you
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Either a video-based, or a font-wheel film
recorder.

Neither has the flexibility and paper-cut sharp-
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But with more than 16 million colors and up to
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And more.

Including the same kind
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bit-mapped graphics as service bureau systems
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All for under $6,000.

FilmPrinter

LaserWriter

To you and your Chooser: the
FilmPrinter is just another printer.

Stand out in a crowd. Emboss your
corporate logo.

IT'S SO ADVANCED,

YOU ALREADY KNOW
HOW TO USE IT.

The Mims FilmPrinter works
like the other printers you have
attached to your Mac.

Just plug it into the SCSI port.

To make slides, you go to the Chooser, select
the FilmPrinter, then just pull down the File menu
and click on Print.That's all there is to it.

The FilmPrinter's software will look familiar, too.

Because it uses the same Macintosh software
you've been using all along.

Canvas, Cricket Presents, Excel, MacDraw,
MORE, PixelPaint, PowerPoint,
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more.

You don't have to get used to
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Databases

It should come as no revelation that
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media — examples of good products help-
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standing). But there is going to be quite a
fight here. After a slow start, Ashton-Tate s
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tremendous installed base to build upon.

Games

MacGolf 3 0 from PCAI. Need I say
more? It was a hit in black and white; try
it in color. Electronic Arts has published
Chuck Yeager’s Flight Simulator, the first
color game we’ve seen created especially
for the Mac II. I’m still counting on Spec-
trum HoloByte to give us F-l6s for aerial
dogfights (a multiple-user version too,
please) Watch that space soon.

And How about Those Utilities?

The question to ask is whether the
Norton Utilities approach can succeed in
the Macintosh world. The answer is yes:
just take a look at the Symantec Utilities
package. The softw^are includes Guardian
(which can recover deleted files), HD

Tune-Up (defragments files), HD Partition
(allows disk partitions), QuickCopy
(speeds up floppy initialization), and lots
more. Run, don’t walk, to your local store
to buy this if you own a hard drive.

System 6.0 Looks Good

We’ve had a look at System 6.0 Tools,
and other than a few compatibility prob-
lems the new System software looks great
(see Mac Bulletin in this issue for a com-
plete list of incompatibilities). The Macro-
Maker feature has won raves from the edi-
tors here who have tried it. Go to your
local authorized Apple dealer and buy this
upgrade. Yes, 2 megabytes of memor)* is
minimal to really make full use of it. I
know there isn’t any memory available —
still, get it when you can.

The “Didn’t They Announce That

Last Year?” Department

Let’s consider those perennial an-
nouncements: CD ROM, scanners, 24-bit
video, tape backup, and facsimile modems.
Well, the story is that a few of these things
are shipping presently, but whether you’re
getting the true story about these on the
show floor depends on the vendor and the
day of the week. If you can buy what
they’re promoting on the show floor, it’s
real. Otherwise exercise your cynicism.
One long-awaited product worth looking
at is the new scanner from Apple. Long in
development, the scanner has some inno-
vative software features.

(continues)

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Magazine of the Month Club

There will be a bevy of new publica-
tions premiering at the expo. Til start with
the one you’re holding. Not that it’s new,
but with over 400 pages it is the largest is-
sue we’ve ever produced. Tm also proud to
note that w^e’ve made my statement of six
months ago come true: w^e’ve had an aver-
age of over 260,000 readers per issue of
Macworld since January of 1988.

Hayden will be showing an issue of
the Macintosh Busmess Review, one of
those perennial announcements. It is a free
magazine to “business” users of the Macin-
tosh — that is, those who know how to fill
out a qualification form the “right” way.
CMP, publisher of Computer Reseller News
will be producing — dare I say it? — another
weekly. This one aimed at the business of
the computer business — resellers and
others.

We’ll probably see some more pub-
lications in the HyperCard area.

Changing of the Old Guard

Only the faces have been changed
to protect the innocent. So many of the
old faces that used to frequent the trade
shows have gone — former Living Video-
text founder Dave Winer, Forethought’s for-
mer president Rob Campbell, and others.
Some of the old faces are so busy that
they’re hard to find: Charlie Jackson of Sili-
con Beach, Heidi Roizen of T/Maker, Jim
Rafferty of Cricket. And some, like John
Warnock of Adobe, Paul Brainerd of Aldus,
and Bill Gates of Microsoft, are usually ens-
conced in hotel suites where they hold
court. Kudos to Apple’s John Sculley, Del
Yocam, and Jean-Louis Gass^e for still wad-
ing through the masses and wandering
around on the show floor to see what they
have wrought.

Other faces have changed places.
Andrew Singer, who has so aggressively
promoted InBox and LightSpeed C during
the past several years at Think Technolo-
gies, is now at Radius.

For a more detailed list of expo
announcements, send a self-addressed
envelope with 45 cents postage to me at
Macworld, 501 Second St., vSan Francisco,
CA 94107. □

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Winners

Winners

Winners

The ‘'Draw It again, Sam. . Contest Winners

Ifs just Haifa 'decade since the introduction of the 128 K Macintosh
and MacPaint, the software that sold so many Macintoshes.

If drawing by computer seemed irresistible then, the choices available
for a Macintosh II are positively inspiring. Graphics products now
offer performance on a Mac II that used to be available only on
minicomputer workstations.

A n inexpensive but excellent general purpose

graphics program such as Aba Software’s “Draw
it again, Sam . . ’’ should not be overlooked in
the high-end clamor. Aba staged a contest that
would draw attention to this excellent, general
purpose graphics program. The winning entries in the
“Draw it again, Sam . . Graphic Arts Contest can be seen
on these pages, along with comments from both winners
and judges.

The prize-winning art was all produced on Macs using
“Draw it again, Sam . . Version 2.0, a $150 program (for
Macintosh 512KE, Macintosh Plus, Macintosh SE and
Macintosh II) that offers ten transparent layers for drawing
or painting, unlimited libraries for storing images (up to 250
per library) and easy icon selection of library images. “Sam”
has interchangeable painting and drawing (you can paint
right into a draw area on the same layer) as well as text
handling, color and spot separations, and other features of
more expensive software. “Draw it again, Sam . . is fully
described below.

The Graphic Arts Contest

Amateurs and professionals competed in the “Draw it again,
Sam . . .” Graphic Arts Contest to win prizes for graphic
excellence in commercial, technical, and fine art categories.
The ground rules were simple: all artwork had to be pro-
duced with a registered copy of “Draw it again, Sam
and contestants could only submit one entry per category.
Their entries were reviewed by a panel of judges experienced
in both computer graphics and the arts. The judges evaluated
not only the art, but the methods used to create it.

Aba challenged contest entrants to take full advantage of
the features of “Draw it again, Sam . . .” The incentives
were tantalizing. Aba awarded the Grand Prize winner (for
best overall work) an Apple Macintosh II computer with 40
MB hard disk, color monitor, and two megabytes of RAM —
a total retail value of over $10,000. The First Prize winners
in each of the three categories and the Best Amateur Prize
winner received an Apple Macintosh SE computer complete
with 20 MB hard disk, a retail value of $3,500. And finally,
the twelve Honorable Mentions are acknowledged with the

publication of their work on these pages along with the
other prize winners.

The Panel of Experts

Aba selected a panel of judges who had distinguished them-
selves in the fields of fine arts and computer graphics. The
panel included among others: Philip Burton, Associate Pro-
fessor in Graphic Design, Yale University. Professor Burton
spent five years studying graphic arts in Switzerland. He
currently teaches graduate students typography, using
Macintosh computers to design fonts.

Michael Gosney, publisher and author. Mr. Gosney*s forth-
coming book is Making Art with Macintosh JJ (Scott,
Foresman & Co.) Of all the judges, he is the most familiar
with examples of art produced by popular Macintosh appli-
cations. In his role as publisher, Gosney showcases
computer graphics in Verbum, a Journal of Personal
Computer Aesthetics.

Marjorie Spiegelman, designer, Spiegelman & Mandel. Ms.
Spiegelman has designed several computer magazines using
desktop systems, induing Publish! and Macintosh Tbday. As
an accomplished design professional, she understands the
time and experience required before a computer artist can
fully apply design concepts acquired in other disciplines.

Mark Rosenthal, Curator of 20th Century Art, Philadelphia
Museum of Art. Formerly the Curator of Collections at Uni-
versity Art Museum in Berkeley, Mr. Rosenthal has organized
numerous exhibitions. He has contributed to the evaluation
process his perspective on 20th century fine arts and graphics.

Each of the judges reviewed and scored the work sepa-
rately. They examined the artwork on screen as well as on
hard copy. The judges generally agreed that the submissions
were surprisingly good. After tabulating the results, the
judges debated among themselves the merits of the top ten
pieces. Finally, they awarded prizes for the most appealing
and interesting use of “Draw it again, Sam . . .” in each of
the categories.

And The Winners Are . . .

WINNERS

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Even though judges can be dazzled by the
use of color, the judges awarded the Grand
Prize for the best overall work to this
black-and-white design. In the judges’
opinion, the winning design effectively
combined the program 's draw/paint
capabilities to produce an imaginative
and provocative statement.

Michael Green is the author and illustrator
of Zen and the Art of the Macintosh
(Running Press, 1986). Although Michael
made a few initial drawings, it wasn’t
until he found what he wanted to create

that the picture came together.

The title and the picture’s cave-like draw-
ing of a man remind us that the real roots
of humanity reach far beyond technology.

Michael created the drawing on a Mac Plus.
At first he turned the layers into a sketch
pad to work out his ideas. In the later
stages of the drawing, he altered the design
by isolating certain elements on one layer
and sending them to another. He found the
zoom feature handy in aligning objects,
and liked the effects he could produce with
the customizable spray on the airbrush.

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**Draw it Again, Sam . .

nlike the general consumer marketplace, where
price often dictates purchase, low-end pricing in
the computer software market per se attracts
few buyers. The emphasis is on performance. A
successful entry-level program must offer com-
petitive features and still be easy to learn, not to mention
efficient in its use of disk space. Priced at $150, Aba Soft-
ware’s “Draw it again, Sam . . Version 2.0 substantially
enhances the performance of its previous version and keeps
“Sam” competitive with much more expensive general pur-
pose drawing programs. It offers simplicity, flexibility, and
some features that are not available in similar programs,
such as the $395 MacDraw II or Canvas or SuperPaint.
Drawing, painting and drafting freely on ten layers, over-
lapping bit-map and object art on the same layer, “Draw it
again, Sam . . .” clearly deserves consideration on the basis
of performance.

The Layers Setup dialog box lets you add layers and
alter your current view of each layer. You can display
each layer's contents (visible), hide them (invisible),
see them as a solid background (gray), or in an
outline (framed).

Layers, Libraries

“Draw it again, Sam . . ." gives you 10 layers on which to
work — more than sufficient for most technical and fine art
applications, and one that won’t tax system requirements.
You can move through the layers with ease. “Sam” lets you
save one or more layers at a time, and print one or more
layers at a time. There’s a simple tool for multiple layer
selection. To make your work easier, you can display layers
in four modes: normal (complete), outline, invisible, and
20% gray screen (substitutes a patterned gray tint). Layers
can also be used to create spot color separations and
blended colors, increasing the number of color options
well beyond the simple 8-color palette.

This program lets you create and edit as many libraries of
frequently used symbols, logos, borders, frames and other
objects as your disk can accommodate. Each library con-
tains up to 250 different images. You can browse, pick and
choose an image quickly from any library by menu, or by
icon. With “Draw it again, Sam . . the library icon shows
you a tiny representation of the actual stored image.

Dynamic Drawing Tbols

“Draw it again, Sam . . .” has all the tools required for a
serious drawing program. The menu includes rectangles,
round comer rectangles, ellipses, horizontal and vertical

parallel line sets (with adjustable line counts), polygons,
free forms and registration marks that assure accuracy in
points, picas, inches, centimeters or engineering inches. You
can choose the units of measurement, including grid sizes,
and define the page size. X and Y grids are independent, so
you can snap objects to either grid separately. By displaying
mouse coordinates and using the adjustable rulers to place
objects, you can exercise pixel-point control with ease.

There are 20 levels of smoothing available for polygons.
Arcs can be edited and reshaped. And unlike some complex
Mac programs, all the tools and displays in “Draw it again,
Sam . . closely follow Macintosh conventions, so there’s
no guessing about the way things work.

Object manipulation tools in “Draw it again, Sam . . .” rival
those of MacDraw II. For example, the direction (arrow)
keys can be used to move selected objects precisely one
pixel in the arrow’s direction. By double-clicking on an
object, you see the location, fill, frame, color and line thick-
ness in a dialog box and you may reset all of the object’s
attributes. You can stack objects on a single layer, send
them to separate layers, overlap them in order of their crea-
tion, or rearrange the stacking order. “Draw it again, Sam
. . recognizes that the mouse is the most important object
manipulation tool, so the ciurent mouse location, the last
mouse click location, and the distance and angle from the
last mouse click are displayed in the Mouse Window.

Libraries store up to 250 images created with draw,
paint, and text tools. Each image is represented by a
miniature replica in the library palette. The Libraries
menu identifies each icon by name and image, lets
you alter the icon without changing the artwork, as
well as delete icons or rearrange them on the palette.

Smoothing Integrated Paint Tools
The big story with “Draw it again, Sam . . .” Version 2.0 is
the carefree intermingling of bit-map painting with object-
oriented graphics on the same level. Unlike a program such
as Canvas, “Sam” allows you to switch modes, without hav-
ing to first designate a region to be bit-mapped or having to
stop and extend the region. With “Draw it again, Sam . .
the flow from bit map to object is smooth and easy. You can
paint directly on drawn objects with all the familiar paint-
ing tools: brush, pencil, paint bucket, spray can and eraser.

With “Draw it again, Sam . . .” you may have any number
of paint objects. These are high-end features. So is the cus-
tomizable spray can nozzle and eraser shapes, and the vari-
able-intensity paint bucket that allows you to create subtle,
muted fills.

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WINNERS

Title: “Explorer.”

Artist: Geoff Hall. Philadelphia. PA

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FIRST PRIZE
FINE ARTS

Geoff Hall was an original 128K owner and cur-
rently consults with clients on how to apply high
technology to the arts. Geoff had access to a Mac II
with a 4-bit color card. This configuration posed an
interesting set of design parameters. In addition to
experimenting with the color palettes available to
him, Geoff also played with various gray shades to
create background effects. In working with the layer
capabilities and transfer modes, Geoff even discov-
ered a useful undocumented feature that allowed
him to lock the position of objects, while leaving
him free to change their attributes.

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FIRST PRIZE
TECHNICAL
ART

About a month before the deadline, Darrell saw an
ad for the "Draw it again, Sam . . .” Graphic Arts
Contest on a bulletin board. A sophomore at San
Jose State University, Darrell works part-time in the
computer lab. He created his drawing on a Mac SE
in the lab, working on it in spare moments. About a
week before the contest deadline, his supervisor learned
what Darrell was up to — and encouraged him to
transfer the drawing to a Mac II and add color.

The concept for "The New Odyssey” came from a
picture of the Space Shuttle Darrell saw in an issue
0 / National Geographic. Darrell placed background
objects, such as the Earth and solar reflections, on
the lower layers. Tb make the background black, he
used the polygon tool set for black. Working on the
higher layers for the more intricate details, Darrell
frequently used the Information Tool to identify and
alter object data. He used the hairline option in

designing the bars for the Space Shuttle. Tille: "The New Odyssey." Artist: Oarrell Tang, Mipitas, CA

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lines, Frames, Fills, and Colors

Choose from a hairline to a fat line; lines come in seven thicknesses — one to five
points, none, hairline and custom. You can select from 64 fill patterns available
in black and white or color. “Draw it again, Sam...” also offers a choice of eight
QuickDraw colors that any Macintosh can assign for output. However, by
overlapping colors on the same or different layers, you can produce unlimited
color blends, shades, and textures.

A ny draw or paint object can be displayed in one
of four tranter modes: Opaque, Clear, Invert,
and Erase. Opaque is the normal mode that
paints over everything; Clear lets something
beneath show through; Invert makes solid areas
blank, makes blank areas solid (and can create colors not in
the standard QuickDraw palette) and changes what shows
through; while Erase creates an effect similar to a photo-
graphic negative.

“Draw it again, Sam . . ? gives you the freedom to try out
different effects by assigning separate or overlapping bit-
mapped and drawn objects in various colors and modes. You
also have the freedom to assign colors and modes before you
draw, or add them later.

Printer technology is evolving rapidly, particularly in the
area of color gr«q)hics. “Draw it again, Sam . . .” addresses
the most popular color and laser printers and will be
upgraded to keep up with important developments.

(Aba provides free upgrades to registered owners.)

"Draw It again, Sam . . lets you freely mix draw
and paint objects on the same layer. Choose from
one of eight basic colors, or create blends of colors
by overlapping objects In one of four different modes.

The PerformanceA^alue Equation

The simplicity and ease of “Sam” recommends it not only to
beginners, but to any person looking for an integrated draw/
paint program. Professionals from architects to scientists
who produce diagrams and layered drawings, and who do
not have a need for CAD/CAM performance levels will dis-
cover that highly accurate technical drawings are easily
done with “Sam.” Desktop publishers will find that “Draw
it again, Sam . . .” is simpler to learn and use than more
expensive competitors, and more than sufficient for the
jobs at hand.

Unlike many other software manufacturers who segment
their product lines into various hardware and software
applications. Aba is commited to serving the graphic
requirements of the Macintosh community. Several new
products from Aba reflect this singular commitment. “Sam
Librarian” is a desk accessory that allows you to access
hbraries you’ve created in “Draw it again, Sam . . .” without
having to quit from the program you’re currently in. For
example, if you’re working in a desktop publishing program,
you can open the “Sam Librarian” desk accessory, select the
appropriate drawing from the library, then copy and paste it
into your document. Aba’s GraphistPaint I, a black-and-
white paint program, and GraphistPaint Color, offer mathe-
matical tools for stretching, distorting, and manipulating
images. With the aid of a stencil layer, the program can
combine portions of one image with another through area
fiU, color fill, or the painting tools.

Graphics are an inherent strength of the Macintosh. Aba’s
products give Mac owners the tools they need to produce
good commercial, technical, and fine art.. Of particular note
in this era of maverick programming is Aba’s insistence
that their entry-level product respect the Mac interface and
do things the way they’re supposed to be done. Instinctively.

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WINNERS

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FIRST PRIZE
COMMERCIAL
ART

The Best Commercial Art Award went to Sonya
Haferkom for her skillful storyboard rendition and
well-targeted application of “Draw it again, Sam ...”
As the Executive Creative Director for Four D
Computer Graphics, a 3-D animation company,
Sonya found that “Draw it again, Sam . . .”
provided an ideal environment for developing a
sequence of animation. By using the layers, Sonya
placed each object on its own level and manipulated
it separately. She also used the layers to experiment
with different versions of the objects. Sonya made
extensive use of the program's ability to combine a
set of textures and colors to create shades and
blends, using the transparent overlays and different
opacities. She plans to use ‘Draw it again, Sam . . .”
at work for her presentations. Instead of producing
static diagrams with pointing arrows, Sonya can
now display her concepts to a client on screen, altering,
resizing, or replacing objects during the presentation.

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PRIZE

In selecting “Bottles in Window” for the Best
Amateur Award, our judges thought the artist had
given a traditional subject matter a fresh treatment
by using the program 's color capabilities and
transfer modes.

The artist, Matthew Seigel, is a senior graphic
designer for GTECH Corp., with a background of
Computer Science courses at University of Maryland
and Industrial Design at the Rhode Island School of
Design. At work, Matthew prepares graphs, charts,
and diagrams, but for the contest, Matthew decided
to experiment with free-form concepts, and take
advantage of the different textures he could obtain
using the airbrush effects of “Draw it again, Sam ...”
“Sam’s” draw tools allowed him to continually
change the colors, and rescale and rearrange the
objects. In particular, Matthew appreciated the flexi-
bility “Draw it again, Sam ...” afforded him to play
with an image until he’d found the result he wanted.

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Title: "Heroes' Garden "

Artist: Pat Bertha. Roseville. CA

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Steven Levy

Hey! Wanna Buy a
Used Mac?

Like pork bellies and stock futures, the market
for used Macintoshes is booming. Why?

In a nondescript office a block down the
street from the flesh markets of Times
Square, a different type of trading takes
place. There, brokers cradling telephones
deal in the used-computer market, marry-
ing potential sellers of silicon to those
wanting pre-owned machines. The primary
currency of this company, Computer Bro-
kerage Services, is Macintosh computers.
The cofounders of the business consider
the Macintosh a commodity: prices rise
and fall almost daily, affected by factors as
significant or arcane as those that deter-
mine the price of coffee beans or frozen
orange juice. Instead of cold snaps and
shortages of farm labor, these factors in-
clude the price of memory, the degree to
which corporations look favorably upon
the Macintosh, and above all, the cost of a
new' Macintosh at a discount store.

Welcome to the rapidly expanding
wwld of used-Macintosh sales.

“It s exactly like the commodities
market,” says Stephen vSimpson, w'ho co-
founded Computer Brokerage with fellow^
Mac freak Steve Doochin. “It goes up and
down every hour. If someone calls in to
sell 30 Mac Pluses and I have to get rid of
them, for tw^o hours the price of Mac Pluses
goes dow'n.”

Store n Lery is a .Macworld colunuiist and the
author q/'Thc Unicorn’s Secret: Murder in the Age
of Aquarius, recently published by Prentice Hall
Press.

How much, you ask, are Mac Pluses
these days? As I write this, in May 1988, Ap-
ple has recently cut its retail price for a Plus
from $2200 to $1800, thus dropping the
trading price of a used machine at Comput-
er Brokerage from around $1350 to some-
where between $1000 and $1100. This
maintains a slim but significant advantage
over the price one pays at a discount store
like 47th Street Photo in New York City —
around $1300. (In your area, as in Boston,

w^here discount stores do not sell Macs at
such low prices, the street price of a used
Mac Plus may run a little higher, around
$1175, according to prices posted by the
Boston Computer Exchange.) Computer
Brokerage turns over used Pluses with lit-
tle problem, and Simpson says that when

(continues)

Macw'orld 77

Safeu^ first.

That’s the basic rule of thumb with
disk di'ives because you Ciui’t risk crashing.

And that’s precisely why you should
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powerful and less costly. Once the seller
accepts the facts of life, the broker accepts
the listing and attempts to find a buyer. Of-
ten there is a list of potential buyers who
have expressed a desire for a Mac at a cer-
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not, the listing goes into the 4th Dimension
database that Computer Brokerage uses.
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disk drives, might be on the list for months.
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buyer and seller are matched. Computer
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the buyer tests the equipment. Only then
does it send the seller the money, less a
10 percent fee.

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as fault lines. On the West Coast the per-
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sale on the Atlantic Seaboard. Another al-
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unusual in the used-computer business.

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puters that Apple couldn’t — and then
wouldn’t — sell. Sun has upgraded them to
run the current crop of Mac software and
tries to convince callers who want a Mac
that these new-age Lisas will do the trick.

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working). Other common used-Mac cus-

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New Turbo Mouse by Kensington

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Fast Forms by Shana Enterprises

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Cutting Edge Wedge XL 30
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MacSnap 524E (5I2E to I MB) 189.

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MacSnap 548E (512 E to 2MB) 425.

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MacSnap 2SE 299.

1024 Option (I MB Accelerator
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Math Kit (Math Co-processor Chip Set) 225.

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MacMemory, Inc. Turbo SE (16 Mhz
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Rodime 45 Plus (Ext. 45MB SCSI) 939.
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Rodime 100 Plus (Ext. 100 MB SCSI) 1 169.

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An interview with Danny Goodman, author
and stackware programmer

Danny Goodman bad written ten com-
puter books, me// /r//>?^ Hands-On Excel
(published by Scott, Foresman, & Co.)
by the time Bantam Books released his
Complete Guide to I hperCard last year
at Macworld Expo in Boston. He had
worked on it in secrecy for months while
HyperCard itself was under construc-
tion, spending long hours with the Hyper-
Card development duo, Bill Atkinson and
Dan Winkler. As HyperCard rapidly cap-
tured the imagination of Mac enthusi-
asts, Goodman's hook became an over-
night hit. Goodman put HyperCard to the
test while programming Focal Point and
Business Class, the first commercial
stacks, published last year by Activision
( now Mediagenic). He recently finished
Danny Goodman s I lyperCard Developers
Gv\\{\^,forthcomi}ig from Bantam, and
he's working on a new version of Focal
Point and an interface to a small device
the size of two cigarette packs that could
plug into the Mac and store your Hyper-
Card scheduler for the road.

How did the reception of your book differ
from what you expected?

I had no idea it would be such a success. It
w'as completely dependent on the recep-
tion of HyperCard. And even within Apple,
before I lyperCard s release, there were
a lot of people who were not in favor of
1 lyperCard.

Not in favor of it as an Apple product? Or
not in favor, period?

Some peoj^le were very concerned be-
cause HyperCard would be bundled witli
the Macintosh and would therefore repre-
.sent Apple. Some had doubts about it tech-
nically; if people at Apple had doubts, so
could the marketj^Iace. It was a very radical
product, impossible to describe. Here we
are a year later, and \is still impossible to
describe. How are you going to sell the
Macintosh masses on such a product?

Ma\be some didn’t like I lyperCard
because John Sculley was the one champi-
oning it and forcing people to accept it
whether they liked it or not. In Odyssey
(I larper ik Row, 1987) Sculle\' talked about
the importance of consensus building, but
HyperCard was something that came down
from the top — not the way things usually
happen at Apple.

Luckily it took off. I think people re-
sponded to the inherent quality of the pro-
duct — it allows you to think flexibly and
bring the power of the computer back into
your own hands.

From the stacks you’ve seen, has Hyper-
Card realized its potential?

Everyone is very eager to show me their
stacks because they feel they’ve mastered
the computer. That's why the stacks that
first showed up on CompuServe were in
the “Look, Ma, see what I've done!” genre.

I've proved that HyperCard is an en-
abling technology myself with Focal Point.
Since the days of the Apple II I’ve been
wanting something like Focal Point to orga-
nize m\’ life. I just couldn’t do the program-
ming well enough in BASIC or Pascal or
anything else I tried. I’m living proof that
you can do programming with HyperTalk
even if you couldn’t in any other language.

1 .still can’t manage external com-
mands (XCMDs), which programmers
write in other languages to add something
Hy perCard doesn’t do.

What kind of extensions can we expect
from XCMDs?

This year some very impressive communi-
cations XCMDs will be coming out.

There’s an example in my new book
that’s a front end to the national weather
service on CompuServe. You specify which
cities you want weather for, and within a
minute the XCMD’s logged on and picked
up the weather, put each city’s weather on
its own little card, and logged off.

We have to make telecommunications
easier, get away from all these arcane com-
mands. And we can do it in 1 lyperCard.

When HyperCard first came out, people
joked that it was a way to sell memory up-
grades. Now it seems that it also creates a
demand for more hard disk storage. How
does that relate to HyperC:ard as enabling
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HyperCard may be pushing the limits of
the basic machine now, but a year from
now it won’t be. A few years ago it was only
the real nerdy power users who had hard
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;Took An Advanced Drawing ProgramTd CreateThis Art

Poetry?

Well, very compact . . . like a haiku. I call
Dan “Mr. n — 1” because if you give him a
script to look at, he’ll always find a way to
shorten it by one line. His comment about
poetry influenced me; now when I review
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Is stackware commercially viable, given
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XCMD, which is compiled and therefore
protected. It’s actually an advantage to

Isay don’t bother to protect your
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pi^oprietary, put it in an XCMD.

computer without considering buying a
hard disk. De.spite this little bump in the
price of memory we’re experiencing now,
memory will get cheaper, and so will
storage.

As more memory comes around,
HyperCard applications will be more ac-
cepted because you’ll be able to keep
HyperCard running all the time.

Some people feel frustrated because
w^orking with HyperCard is much more
difficult than they had expected.

There’s a very small pocket of people who
don’t find it as easy as they expected. It is
programming, though it’s much simpler

than any other kind of programming. It’s
easy to have a block about programming
because we’ve been conditioned that
programming is really only for techie
people — it’s difficult, and ro// shouldn’t be
doing it. It doesn’t surpri.se me that some
people have difficulty, but HyperCard has
empowered a huge number of people.

Some professional programmers com-
plain that HyperTalk allows — even pro-
motes — sloppy programming. Do you
think that’s a valid criticism?

The sort of syntactical and character-by-
character precision required in some other
languages is ju.si the stuff that’s the barrier
for the rest of us. Dan Winkler believes that
HyperTalk scripts should look like poetry.

10-1 ScpiemlxT 1988

Some people get so hung up on
the idea of hypermedia and
nonlinearity that their stacks
just go wild.

leave everything else open because it al-
lows the stack to be customized. You can
even take something from HyperTalk and
turn it into an XCMD if you’re paranoid
about losing it to the public domain.

Where do people have problems with
HyperCard stack design?

The graphic design is very important;
there’s no way to stress that enough. My
stomach turns when 1 see a card that has
text you have to scroll because you’re
meant to read everything that’s there. Di-
vide it up into card-size chunks. It’s a lot
more engaging for me to click on a button
and have a card dissolve to the next card.

Then there’s the structure of the stack.
Given the body of information to manage,

people are really not sure whether it
should be one stack with four backgrounds
or 45 stacks with one background each.

Some people get so hung up on the
idea of hypermedia and nonlinearity that
their stacks just go w ild. They w'ant to cram
a million buttons on every card, until the
buttons outweigh the information on each
card, and it’s hard to figure out wiiere
you are.

What questions should people ask them-
selves when they’re planning a stack?

They ought to take the user’s point of view.
How will the user be accessing that infor-
mation? Will it be in a story line, from be-
ginning to end? Will it be searching for one
fact down a hierarchy? Are the users likely
to want to explore other points once they

reach that fact? If so, the stack structure
shouldn’t force them to go back to the
starting point to find something in another
branch of the tree.

What do you see as weaknesses in the
current (original) version of HyperCard?

I have a long wish list for future versions.
Everybody w^ants bigger cards, but I want
smaller cards for simplicity. I don’t like the
idea of bigger cards, forcing somebody to
scroll to find buttons on a card if they’re
using a small monitor.

I’d like to see HyperTalk performance
improved, especially in doing math. I’d like
a global text field, so I could put some text
on the background in a field without hav-
ing to store it with each card in the stack.

I’d like to be able to sort text alphabetically
in a container. I’d like more flexibility in
searching so you could limit a search to a
particular background card rather than
searching a whole stack. And Boolean OR
searches.

I’d like user-defined menus, so you
could create your own menus and make

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If Bill Atkinson added everything
that people are clamoring for,
HyperCard would end up at 3
megabytes.

the MyperCard menus go away. Then you
could build four or five different print
commands into a stack s File menu, for
example.

I’d like to be able to define irregularly
shaped buttons so I can define an area, like
a country shape on a map, as a button.

And I’d like a number of other pro-
gramming refinements, such as real-time
debugging, data verification for fields, and
autohighlighting for radio buttons — just
as there already is for check boxes. And
global macros so 1 could launch applica-
tions in HyperCard and, while still in
HyperCard, control what I'm doing in
the other application.

You don’t care about printed reports of
the information in the stack then?

Reports, a product developed by Nine-
to-Five and published by Mediagenic
(formerly Activision), ought to solve that
problem.

The whole subject of reporting gets
into the question of whether HyperCard is
a database. It was intended as a browser
rather than a sorter — to let you look
through cards. And I don’t think there's
anything wrong with that.

But if you define HyperCard as an infor-
mation tool kit, as you have said, aren’t
reports important to users?

I've seen what Bill Atkinson has tried to
cram into the memory and the code size. If
he added everything that people are clam-
oring for, HyperCard w^ould end up at 3
megabytes, and he'd have to deliver it on

streaming tape instead of floppy disks. The
current version uses 750K of memory, but
Bill does that for good reasons — to help
performance and so that, if you make a
mistake, you can undo it; there's a lot of for-
giveness built in.

Are networking functions adequately sup-
ported in HyperCard?

Not at this time, but the forthcoming ver-
sion will be a lot better. One thing that will
still be lacking is some mechanism to allow
more than one person to wTite to a stack at
one time.

Are there any projects that people have
approached you to do with HyperCard
that you feel aren’t appropriate for
HyperCard?

Yes, tliere are certain things that really
ought to be done in a relational database.
HyperCard is not going to replace Omnis
3, and Helix, and 4D, and Reflex, and it was
never intended to.

What about replacing Microsoft File?

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for a Radio Shack Model 100
portable as a substitute.

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and in one case it ought to be in Hyper-
Card, and in another case it ought to be in
a database. The difference is how you inter-
act with the data. If you need flexible se-
lecting and reporting and a variety of on-
screen formats for the same data, then
by all means put the information in a
database.

HyperCard gives people a lot of power to
control the way they manipulate informa-
tion, but it*s still a long way from John
Scul ley’s Knowledge Navigator — with a
friendly helper in the computer who does
all the tedious research for you. How
could HyperCard possibly lead to that?

I think it’s possible, without completely
severing the ties to the installed base, but
it’s going to take longer than we’d like.

Those of us at the leading edge of this
technology — asking where is the Mac
III — have to realize it will take a long time
to get everyone up to the place where in-
dustry insiders are. There are still a lot of
college kids using the Mac productively
with only 128K of RAM and 400K drives.

To what extent docs something like the
Knowledge Navigator depend on the ma-
chines’ becoming as widespread as the
telephone? If you’re going to automat-
ically retrieve data from our culture’s re-
positories of knowledge, the computer
has to be able to reach the information.

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too. And the computers have to go with us.
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your office you’ve left the information be-
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for a Radio Shack Model 100 portable as a
substitute.

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Macworld News

by Gil Davis

Peter Jennings uses a HyperCard stack designed especially for ABC News to instantly retrieve up-to-
the-minute information on this yearns election coverage.

Stacking Up
Candidates
at ABC

At this summer’s polit-
ical conventions, a
third ABC anchor sat
between Peter Jennings and
David Brinkley — a Macintosh
II, loaded with ABC’s secret
weapon in its coverage of the
1988 presidential campaigns.
This secret weapon is MAGNA,
one of the most extensive feats
of HyperCard programming to
date. It was designed and main-
tained by the network’s elec-
tion specialists, with some help
from Apple. With MAGNA, the
entire ABC team was able to
access information instantly
on anything — from where
Dukakis stood on Star Wars to
who the key votes w^ere in the
Iowa delegation. Most striking,
the data was fully accessible to
Jennings himself, who could
mouse his way into an up-to-
the-minute delegate count, a re-
cap of what happened on Super
Tuesday, or even a record of his
own notes on a given topic.

MAGNA (which stands for
Macintosh ABC General News
Almanac) is an interlocking set
of HyperCard stacks holding
thousands of campaign facts. It
marks the deepest incursion
that personal computers have
made into the electronic news
business. A virtual showcase
of the powers of HyperCard,
MAGNA not only allows com-
puter innocents to get facts
quickly and intuitively, it per-

mits easy changes in the data.
MAGNA, for instance, can re-
flect a rapidly changing situa-
tion — a floor demonstration at
a political convention or an
election-night tally. It allows
Macs to shovel information to
ABC personnel as smoothly as
Holly Hunter fed facts to Will-
iam Hurt in Broadcast Neivs.

Dave Bohrman, ABC's senior
political producer for election
coverage, realized that Hyper-
Card could replace the thou-
sands of 5-by-7-inch cards the
networks were using for cover-
ing major events like presiden-
tial campaigns. Once Bohrman

convinced his bosses to allow
him to centralize the innu-
merable facts gathered in the
course of the campaign on Hy-
perCard, ABC cut a deal with
Apple to lease ten Macs, some
laser printers, a flatbed scanner,
and several copies of Hyper-
Card software. In addition, Ap-
ple provided support, includ-
ing some programming on the
interlocking system of around
130 stacks and over 5000 cards.

But most of the design and
the HyperTalk work w^as done
at ABC. One look at the attrac-
tive, clearly arranged cards tells
you they were designed by ex-
perts in presenting visual infor-

mation on screen. During the
primary season, for instance,
one card contained digitized
faces of all the Democratic can-
didates: click on the face of Du-
kakis and you got a card that
linked you to his current del-
gate count (automatically up-
dated), his stance on any given
issue, his personal background,
or information on his staff and
finances.

At the conventions, layouts of
the arenas in Atlanta and New
Orleans w^ere cross-referenced
according to where each state
delegation sat, and which re-

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This card is a gate-
way to detailed in-
formation about
each of thisyear*s
Democratic
hopefuls.

Another of ABCs
cards shows how
Dukakis's delegate
support has put him
over the top.

porter was assigned to each
area. The schedules and images
of key players were stored in
stacks so correspondents could
find them in an instant. And
ABC linked up the appropriate
data from Mediagenic’s City to
City program so that informa-
tion on hotels, restaurants, and
emergency services was also
accessible.

When we spoke to Dave
Bohrman in June, he was al-
ready savoring the edge MAG-
NA gave ABC over its competi-
tors. “My counterpart at CBS
caught a glimpse of the system
in Iowa,” he said. “He was ex-
tremely envious. He s trying to
get Macs [at his netw'ork], but
it s too late.” Bohrman thinks
this type of technology will
eventually be standard in elec-
tronic journalism. And besides
HyperCard use, Macs have
been making themselves indis-
pensable at ABC in other ways.
One night, the Mac II was even
called into service as a make-
shift TelePrompTer.

For now, watch for MAGNA
on election night, where, as
Bohrman notes, “millions of
people will see the results of
HyperCard.” From there, any-
thing could happen. If Hyper-

Card works for Peter Jennings,
perhaps the winner of the
1988 election will consider
using a set of stacks when an-
swering queries in his first
presidential press conference.
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of 32 nodes on a netw^ork and
greatly degraded performance
when even as few as 16 users
are online. Until now, it’s been
expensive to get to the solu-
tion — Ethernet — which easily
handles 254 nodes at 40 times
the data transfer rate of Local-
Talk (Ethernet is so fast, a file
server can perform like a resi-
dent hard disk).

Now Adaptec is offering
Nodem, which it claims is the
first cost-effective Ethernet
connection for all SCSI-capable

MS-DOS computers and Macs
(all Macs except the 128K and
512K have SCSI ports). Nodem
is a 2-inch-thick, modem-size
box that’s external to any com-
puter — meaning that it doesn’t
take up an internal slot.

Nodem connects a comput-
er’s SCSI port to Ethernet’s
standard coaxial, or twisted-
pair, cabling. When you turn on
the computer, Nodem’s soft-
ware automatically configures
the computer for transparent
communications using Apple-
Talk, NETBIOS, and OS/2 proto-
cols — there’s no need to mod-
ify any application software or
any procedures.

The implications? Not only
could Nodem overcome many
of LocalTalk’s limitations, it
could provide Apple with the
low-cost connectivity capability
it needs to become fully inte-
grated into business, industry,
and education. It could also of-

fer the opening that developers
need to introduce the next gen-
eration of productivity soft-
ware — software focused not on
individual users, but on groups
sharing and exchanging re-
sources and information.

An increasing number of
IBM-compatible computers
have SCSI interfaces. For those
that don’t, Adaptec provides
host adapters. Nodem for the
Mac is expected to be available
in September for $545 for stan-
dard Ethernet cabling, or for
$595 for Ethernet twisted-pair
or Cheapernet. IBM versions
are projected to be available in
the first quarter of 1989. (Other
Ethernet connection devices
range in price from $699 to
$1250 and are produced by Ap-
ple, Dove Computer, Kinetics,
AST Research, and 3Com.) For
further information, call Adap-
tec in Milpitas, California, at
408/945-8600.

Engineers Pete MichelSy Dave SommerSy and Shing Lin developed
Adaptec's Nodemy which provides a low-costy high-speed solution
to networking Macintoshes.

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On the surface, this Apple*' appears to
be a flawless, shiny Usa? But get under its
skin and youll discover Macintosh"" Plus
capabilities in all their glory. There’s just one
way this %le doesn’t measure up to a
Macintosh. At $995*, the Dsa falls impres-
sively short of a Macintosh price tag.

Meet the New Lisa with
MacWorks" Plus

We thought it looked like a perfect
match: the highly efficient Usa and the myri-
ad of Macintosh software
solutions. On the one hand,
there was the Usa, a profes-
sional business computer
wth an extra-large 12"

screen, Macintosh graphic interface, familiar
mouse, easy-to-reach internal components,
space for an internal hard disk drive, three
expansion slots, and a numeric keypad on the keyboard. Then there
was the popularity of the Macintosh Plus, wth its amaang capabili-
ties, functionality and software applications.

What we did to bring the two together was develop a soft-
ware program called MacWorks Plus. MacWorks Plus brings
Macintosh functionality to the
Usa, plus compatibility with
every application that runs on the
Macintosh Plus. With MacWorks
Plus, the Usa can run
HyperCard, MultiFinder,
y^pleShare, WordPerfect,

Adobe Illustrator and ^ MacWorks Plus

Cricket Draw. (To name a few.) runs the latest Macintosh software.

How We Support Lisa and MacWorks Plus

We do a lot more than market the Usa and MacWorks Plus.
We offer a complete line of out-of-production, new and used Apple
compatible products. And we are the only company authorized by
Apple Computer Inc. to sell and serwce their out-of-production
equipment. Because of this, we have invested sizeable resources in
developing improvements for all of the out-of-production and recon-
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must pass rigorous Apple quality control tests. We also back our
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April Greiman placed first in Macworld*s 1988 Macintosh Masters
art contest and won a Macintosh II for her studio.

Macintosh

Masters

Winners

Choosing from nearly
five hundred entries
was a formidable task,
but the judges concurred in
naming April Greiman the
grand prize winner and David
Herrold the distinguished run-
ner-up in the 1988 Macintosh
Masters art contest organized
by Macworld and sponsored
by Adobe Systems, Aldus Cor-
poration, Apple Computer,
Cricket Software, Letraset USA,
Microsoft Corporation, Silicon
Beach Software, and SuperMac.
(See the August issue for the
first place and honorable men-
tion winners in the eight
categories.)

Greiman’s entry, a whimsical
installation entitled Pacific
Wave Sculpture, served as a
grand metaphor for the way in
which Macintosh iconography
invades our consciousness. The
toolbox shapes and bold Mac-
Paint textures that distinguish
the oversize sculpture are fam-
iliar to all Macintosh aficiona-
dos. The sculpture even sported
a visual pun — the Macintosh
grabber engaging in a playful
“wave.” The piece was commis-
sioned for the Pacific Wave Ex-
hibition, an exhibit showcasing
the work of California graphic
designers at the Fortuny Muse-

um in Venice, Italy. Greiman is
now the proud owner of a new
Macintosh 11, thanks to Apple
Computer.

As head of the art depart-
ment at DePauw' University in
Greencastle, Indiana, David
Herrold can usually be found
amidst the dust of the ceramic
studios. During a recent sab-
batical, however, Herrold
brought video images into his
Mac, embellished them using
3-D and paint software, and re-

assembled his work on movie
film as an animation. The re-
sult, Burnout, is an adept tour
of modern art in a mood that
ranges somewhere between
Kafka and Monty Python. As
runner-up, Herrold received a
check for %2^^^.-Suzanne
Stefanac

Fuel for the Mac

Toss all the books
about the Macintosh
into a centrifuge, spin,
and gravity will separate them
into four basic categories: intro-
ductions to the machine, de-
signed primarily for beginners;
overviews of applications,
meant to supplement opaque
software manuals; grab bags of
tips for power users; and texts
of arcana for programmers. Nat-
urally, a few unique contribu-
tions to the Macintosh library
wall resist categorization and
rise to the top. The Fully Pow-

ered Macintosh, by Macworld
contributing editor Robert C.
Eckhardt, is one such book.

The Fully Powered Macin-
tosh, soon to be released by
Brady Books, provides numer-
ous strategies for making the
Mac faster and more efficient
without relying on massive
hardware upgrades. The author
deftly guides you through such
thickets as creating the optimal
System file; installing and using
desk accessories, function keys,
and fonts (Eckhardt advocates
the liberal use of all three); and
fine-tuning the Finder to fit
your personal working style.

He also demonstrates ways to

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Here's a book for people who
want a more efficient Mac with-
out expensive upgrades.

corral the applications you use
most often so that they func-
tion as a single, integrated pro-
gram. All this means speed and
ease of use — even for those of
us who are still struggling with
a Mac Plus, a hard disk, and a
megabyte of RAM.

The book is thoroughly in-
dexed, copiously illustrated,
and comes with a disk of pub-
lic-exchange programs that let
you experiment with the Mac
as you read. At $39.95, it’s
cheaper than many hardware
upgrades, easier to understand,
and won’t become obsolete
quite so fast. It certainly in-
creased my enthusiasm for my
Mzq.— W illiam Freais

lWi»^v-!E

These plans for
April Greiman's
prize-winning
sculpture were
faxed to Venice for
construction and
display at the For-
tuny Museum.

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What were the leaders of the two most
powerful countries in the world really
doing at the summit meeting?

A behind the scenes look
revealed that the ultimate
challenge was actually
who could accumulate the
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Designed and programmed
in the Soviet Union, this
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package is sweeping the
US. TETRIS has been

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Macworld News

Digital Darkroom’s netv Advanced Halftone printing (left) produces higher-contrast, clearer images
using a PostScript or QuickDraw 300‘dpi laser printer ( regular PostScript halftone on the right).

New Image
Processing

Mac users can now
edit images with a host
of new tools contained
in Digital Darkroom by Silicon
Beach Software. When it w^as
first announced last January, the
product s main claim to fame
was its ability to convert a bit-
mapped image into an object-
oriented one that could be
sized and reshaped without
loss of resolution.

Since then, a number of fea-
tures have been added to Digi-
tal Darkroom s object-based
tools, including rotation, slant-
ing, stretching, distortion, and
perspective. Also new is the
$295 program’s Advanced Half-
tone printing option; it pro-
duces images superior to those
previously available and works
with both PostScript and non-
PostScript printers.

Silicon Beach also plans to
ship another graphics program.
Super 3-D, a $295 graphics
modeling program that creates
images using simple 2-D draw-
ing tools. You can view images
by clicking on any of three spin
wheels, which rotate the image
around each of the three axes.
Other viewing tools invoke up

to four light sources and in-
crease or decrease the image’s
size. Super 3-D’s other major
capability, automatic animation,
creates a series of frames be-
tween tw'o positions of the ob-
ject. For more information,
call Silicon Beach Software in
San Diego, California, at
619/695-6956.

More Speed
for a II

The two latest entries
in the “how fast can I
make mv Mac II run”

competition are both like a
computer within a computer.
Each provides up to 20 times
the processing power of the
Mac II’s 68020 processor by off
loading compute-intensive tasks

to its own microprocessor.

YARC’s McCray board fea-
tures a reduced instruction
set computer (RISC) called
the Am29000, which when
equipped with the optional
Am29027 floating-point accel-
erator computes 20 times faster
than a Mac II with the 68881
math chip.

McCray also allows direct
access to graphics and other

I/O NuBus boards under Multi-
Finder. Up to five $4295 McCray
boards can be used in a single
Mac II. Software support in-
cludes an assembler, linker, and
debugger for the Am29000
processor.

The second product is Mer-
cury’s MC3200NU array proces-
sor board for the Mac II. This
board features a Weitek three-
chip set called the XL and a

A Mac // with YARCs McCray
board can compute 20 times
faster than a Mac II with the
68881 math chip.

peak performance rate of 20
million floating-point opera-
tions per second. Mercury en-
gineers were forced to develop
their own NuBus interface chip
for this board because Apple’s
current interface chip just
wasn’t fast enough.

Three to five MC3200NU
boards can be installed in one
Mac II. Mercury also plans to
provide software algorithm
libraries, as well as C and
FORTIU\N compilers, for the
MC3200NU. The board will be
available by September at a
suggested price of $10,000, with
significant volume discounts.
For more information, contact
YARC of Thousand Oaks, Cali-
fornia, at 805/492-8804 and
Mercury of Lowell, Massachu-
setts, at 617/458-3100.
-BritaMeng

H YPERCARD

Powerful Stacks

B As the number of Hy-
perCard stacks grows,
it’s refreshing to find
the better w'ork being distrib-
uted free or as shareware. Be-
fore you shell out more than
$25 for any HyperCard applica-
tion, check with user groups or
information services to see if a
high-quality product is avail-
able at nominal cost. Two new
public domain stacks illustrate
the point.

One is The Stack Starter, a
highly advanced series of stack
ideas from Robertson Reed
Smith, an artist and HyperCard
programmer. His voluminous
creation is a help-yourself cata-
log of incredible HyperCard
components: buttons, controls,
effects, fields, icons, scripts,
sounds, and tools. Many of
these components are inge-

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Macworld News

Stack Starter, by public Uomain programmer Robertson Reed
Smith, provides a ivide range of ideas for HyperCard stacks.

nious enhancements of the
standard items offered by Hy-
perCard. Tlie animated icons
and the new set of buttons
should find their way into
stacks everywhere.

The Stack Starter stands out
among the numerous other
utility packages (some of which
sell for up to $100). The art-
work is superior, with clicking
padlocks, push buttons, on-off
switches, gauges, and knobs ga-
lore. The stack exudes enthusi-
a.sm that is certain to find its
way into your stacks. All under-
lying scripts are available and
modifiable. Smith says he had
to pare down his w'ork consid-
erably to fit it onto a single disk
— so more offerings should be
forthcoming.

The second stack handles
HyperCard cataloging for users
with burdensome floppy-disk
libraries. Oscar F. Hills has con-
tributed his stack. Auto Floppy
Log, to the public domain. Auto
Floppy Log is the first truly use-
ful file cataloger because it can
read all the files on a di.sk and
insert them into a field. Previ-
ous so-called catalogers, wiiich
asked the user to type in file
names, weren't wx)rth the effort.

Auto Floppy Log does more
than catalog a disk's files. Once
y ou have been prompted to in-
.sert a floppy disk for catalog-
ing, you can click on any file
name for an illustration of the
file's path name. In a .separate

field, icons followed by' arrow's
show' y'ou the path of folder
names in wiiich y our file is bur-
ied. Double-clicking on a file
name launches the file.

DLsk information is stored in
personalized disk boxes that
act like folders. You can create
new' boxes or add file cards
within a box. Inlbrmation
about each disk fits onto one
file card. The graphics are ex-
cellent, though the single-card
documentation needs a hearty
rewrite. Auto Floppy Log uses
an XCMD (a non-HyperTalk
language) to read the file in-
formation from the disk. The
scripts are not protected.
Thanks to Oscar F. Hills for
providing a free, extremely use-
ful utility.— 5c'0//ATo///c/?

Publishing
for Real

BMiy i There are at least a few
authors out there w'ho
BkLh not only' desktop pub-
lish their ow'ii books, but w ho
contract for printing and per-
sonally handle retail di.stribu-
tion as w'ell.

Tw'o such entrepreneurs are
Arthur Naiman, w'ho cowTOte
The Macintosh Bible ( 1987 )
with Dale Coleman; and Toni
Michael, alias Saint Silicon, w'ho

travels the trade-show' and
user-group circuit, selling his
Binary Bible (1987). Both tried
to find publishers but learned
in the process that only a tiny
fraction of all books are pro-
moted enough by publishers to
become profitable. So rather
than having their own cre-
ations languish on shelves re-
ceiving only 10 percent of the
wholesale price, they decided
to become directly involved
and to use the increased profits
to finance their next books.

The two authors followed
fairly different paths in produc-
ing their books. Saint Silicon
wTote his by' himself, then bor-
row'ed money to pay others to
do the layout and all the im-
porting and scanning of the
dozens of graphics in the book.
He shopped the entire country
for the lea.st expensive printer
he could find and still .sells
most of the books out of his
own hands.

Arthur Naiman enli.sted ev-
eryone he could to help w'iih

his book — a mLxed group of
authors, family, friends, and
employ'ees did the lay out. A
cooperative handles the
books distribution.

Both Naiman and Michael
had saved money previously by
desktop publishing on the Mac;
they then extended their enter-
prising w'ays to the publishing
and distribution of their own
books. Vive la difference.
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published and marketed their own popular book.

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Symantec Utilities (the old Mac-
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Jasmine’s driver software ex-
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hard disk during formatting. It
also performs automatic error
correction later while reading
from the drive — which should
help keep the dreaded “This
file couldn’t be read and was
skipped” dialog box from ap-
pearing when you are copying
files. How? If the software finds
a bad block, it tries to extract
any data from the bad block
and move it to a good block. If
the program can’t read the
data, it’ll lock off the bad sector,
so that you won’t ever write to
that sector again, obviating the
need to reformat the hard disk.

As if that weren’t enough.
Jasmine now offers true SCSI
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Math Power
on the Mac

The language of math-
ematics and the ability
to deal with symbolic
expressions has until now been
too demanding to be available
on personal computers. Mathe-
matica, a program for manipu-
lating and solving mathemat-
ical equations and quickly
graphing the results, promises
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II — giving scientists, engineers,
and mathematicians a powerful
new tool.

Described as one of the most
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and evaluating integrals and
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maps; as density plots, where
values can be represented as
shading levels; or as wire-frame
or shaded surfaces. Users con-

Stephen Wolfram of the
University of Illinois Computer
Research Lab developed
Mathematica.

trol color, light sources, and
viewpoint; options analagous
to those offered by a camera.
Mathematica outputs graphics
in PostScript; it can output for-
mulas and equations in TEX, C,
and Fortran.

Because the program is di-
vided into two major parts — a
kernel that executes the com-
putations, and a front end that
implements the user inter-
face — Mathematica is ideally

suited for running on a net-
work. Both parts can reside in
the Mac, or network users can
run the front-end on a Mac
while the kernel runs on a
powerful mainframe like a
Cray. The SE and Plus versions
are priced at $495, while the
Mac II version sells for $695. At
press time, versions for 15 other
UNIX-based machines were
pYeinn^d.-David Ushijima

You’re Under
Arrest

If you’re lucky, your
name will never be
typed into one of the
Mobile Macs that are specially
designed for arrest and incident
reporting by police, fire, ambu-
lance, and civil defense officers.
Each name appears on a dig-
itized form; the officer merely
fills in the blanks, and a laser
printer provides the output.

The functional size of the
screen is much larger than its
actual 7 inches, thanks to a
screen-expansion program
called Enable that can zoom in
on any part of the report and
magnify it. The special screen
is connected by cable to a flat
computer module that contains
a 512KE logic board and one or
two 800K floppy drives. The
CPU module is mounted under
a squad car’s dashboard, where
a keyboard can be secured with
Velcro. Should the report need
to be completed inside the po-
lice station, the officer can
quickly detach the CPU and
keyboard and plug them into a
12-inch Colby Big Top monitor
and 115-volt power supply.

Officers at the Redwood City,
California, police department
seem to like their Mobile Macs
— the department just ordered
25 more. It still has one prob-
lem to solve, however: who’s

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going to buy the 23 MS-DOS
laptops it rejected as too
cumbersome?

Suggested pricing for volume
purchases (of 20 or more units)
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Virus Remedies

Will 1988 be remem-
bered as the Year of
the Virus? After a rela-
tively harmless Macintosh virus
made its appearance early this
year, some felt that the computer
press overreacted by giving the
story front-page coverage.
Computer viruses are small
programs that quietly attach
themselves to any System files
and applications they come in
contact with; viruses have the
potential to cause serious dam-
age by altering data or render-
ing computer systems unusable.

The Macintosh community
responded to the threat by
making available special files
(like CE Software’s Vaccine) de-
signed to detect and remove vi-
ruses. Apple joined the fray and
released an application called
Virus Rx; you can obtain it from

a user group, a local bulletin
board, or a major network
service.

There is no way to absolutely
guarantee that a system won’t
become infected, but you can
play it safe by following a few
simple rules.

1. Don’t use new noncom-
mercial applications without
testing them for a few days
first, by running them from a
floppy disk with the hard disk
turned off.

2. Make frequent data-file
backups, and keep the original
application disks write-
protected.

3. If you suspect that the Sys-
tem file or any application on a
hard disk is infected, the surest
cure is to reformat the disk
and restore it from scratch.
-Franklin Tessler

Slides by
Montage

For the last two years
16^1 Presentation Technolo-
illBf gies has provided the
only film recorder for the Mac-
intosh — the ImageMaker. As
other companies announce
film recorders for the Mac, it’s
not surprising to see Presenta-
tion Technologies countering
with a new offering of its own.

The Montage FRl Film Re-
corder uses a digital imaging
design that provides hidden-
line removal, handles bit-
mapped images, and supports
LaserWriter Plus typefaces as

well as all screen fonts. The FRl
is able to output images created
with up to 16.7 million colors
and comes with a desk acces-
sory for colorizing images on
black-and-white Macs. A com-
pany spokesperson claimed
that the $5995 film recorder
will be able to produce slides
with up to 4000 lines horizon-
tally and 4000 lines vertically in
an average of three minutes.
Multiple film backs are also
planned — such as a Polaroid
back in October, and a third-
party bulk-film back in the
third quarter.

The FRl Film Recorder is the
first product in the Montage
Presentation Series. The series
offers a novel approach to pack-
aging color output devices:
sharing components in an ef-
fort to reduce costs. In the third
quarter, Presentation Technolo-
gies also plans to offer a 300-
dots-per-inch color thermal
printer for under $5000 that
shares the rasterizer in the FRl.
Yet another product, the Mon-

Tbis Montage FRl Film Record-
er can output slides using up to
16.8 million colors.

tage Graphics Manager, will be
a proprietary expansion chassis
with plug-in cards. The first of
these will be a PostScript pro-
cessor for producing color Post-
Script images. Both the thermal
printer and the film recorder
will be able to use the capa-
bilities of the Graphics Man-
ager, including networking
options planned for future ver-
sions. The Graphics Manager
and PostScript boards should
become available by the end of
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Color Tools
for 3-D

Now you can w’rap any
kind of color graphics
around 3-D objects: for
example, you can create your
own image of various worlds
by wrapping flat maps around
spheres, cones, or other regu-
lar geometric shapes.

Photon Paint offers color paint-
ing tools, plus a color palette.

This is just one capability
available in Microlllusions new
Macintosh version of Photon
Paint. This color graphics pro-
gram also offers perspective
tilting, which lets you rotate a
3-D object around any point
and shade it by placing a light
source.

Photon Paint provides typical
paint-program tools as well, in-
cluding a paint bucket, pencil,
spray can, and brush. It also
features an arc tool and an eye-
dropper tool for color match-
ing, similar to those found in
SuperMac’s PixelPaint. You can
select and blend colors for pal-
ettes with either Photon Paint’s
color-blending options or
Apple’s Color Picker.

Photon Paint runs not only
on the Mac II, but also on non-
color systems such as the Mac
Plus and SE. The program is

compatible with all color video
boards — from RasterOps’ 24-
bit board for the Mac II to
Orchid Technology’s Mac SE
board. Microlllusions is now

developing Mac versions of two
more of its Amiga programs:
Photon Video/Cell Animator

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With Photon Paint, you can add color graphics or shading to 3-D
objects and then create a perspective view.

Your Best Stacks

Here’s the latest collec-
tion of stacks submit-
ted by our readers.
Kunihito Koike, of Yokohama,
Japan, submitted five nice
MIDI -oriented stacks and two
graphics .stacks. One of the
graphics stacks. Gallery, has a
number of digitized Japanese
.screens. The MIDI stack Funny
Day is a short animated cartoon
with a basic tune that is very
amusing. All of the MIDI stacks
contain a number of shareware
external commands to allow a
HyperCard stack to communi-
cate with a MIDI device. If you
are a MIDI u.ser and are inter-
ested in interfacing MIDI to
HyperCard, you'll find this set
of stacks very useful.

The second selection is Bird
Anatomy, submitted by Patrick J.
Lynch, of the department of
biomedical communications at
Yale University. This stack is the
best educational stack I have

.seen to date. It makes out.stand-
ing use of the HyperCard inter-
face and is absolutely intuitive.

It offers help and an explana-
tion of each button. It has out-
standing graphics, and it ties
text to those graphics in the
manner that Bill Atkinson envi-
sioned for HyperCard when he

wrote it. If you can download
only one stack this month, look
for this one. It’s an example of
what all HyperCard authors
should strive for in stack design.

My last choice this month is a
stack by Dr. Mark Zimmerman;
it’s called Texas. This stack in-
corporates 13 external func-

tions that will index any text
file. Zimmerman developed it
in order to browse through ac-
cumulations of information
downloaded from various time-
sharing services. It offers the C
source code for those inter-
e.sted. This highly useful file is a
wonderful example of external
functions and what external
commands can do to extend
HyperCard. -It is well worth the
download time.

Keep tho.se stacks coming
c/o News Editor, Macworld,
for consideration in “Your
Best Stacks.’’ We’ll pay $25 for
every item printed. Shareware
or freeware stacks reviewed
here are available on my BBS
PhoenixII at 408/253-3926, or
PhoenixIII on Portal at 408/
725-0561, as well as through
the other major commercial
services. Both my BBS and
Portal can be reached through
PCPursuit.“/io/? ''LaserMan**
Murrow

Bird Anatomy is absolutely intuitive. It's the best educational
stack our stack reviewer has seen to ilate.

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and Photon Video/Transp>ort
Controller.

For more information about
the $249 Photon Paint program,
contact Microlllusions in Gra-
nada Hills, California, at 818/

New Era in
Storage

If you Ve dreamed
about virtually unlim-
ited amounts of data
storage, you may find that your
dreams have come true. Take a
look at two new drives from
Maxtor Corporation that both
use a relatively new technol-
ogy — removable, optical, eras-
able media (ROEM) — to
hold up to one gigabyte of
information.

Maxtor's highest-capacity
drive, called Tahiti 1, is a 5^4-
inch, full-height drive with a re-
movable cartridge that looks
like a thick floppy disk. Each
side of this cartridge holds up
to 512 megabytes of data, which
can be accessed as fast as on
many hard disks: 30 millisec-
onds is the average seek time.

If you want something a little
smaller, Maxtor's Fiji 1 is a full-
height, 3*/2-inch drive with a re-
movable cartridge that holds
160MB on a single side. The Fiji
1 drive's access time is closer to
a floppy's — 100 milliseconds.
Both drives have SCSI inter-
faces, mean-time-between-
failure specifications of 30,000
hours, and an expected media
life of over ten years.

Maxtor expects its ROEM
drives to be especially popular
as network file servers and for
applications like CAD/CAM,
imaging, document storage,
and backup.

Production quantities of
both drives are anticipated in
September. Retail prices are ex-
pected to be at least $5000 for
the Tahiti I and $2000 for the

One of Maxtor's two new drives
holds up to 1 gigabyte of inf or-
mation on a ROEM.

Fiji I. Maxtor is the original
equipment manufacturer for
the drives, which will be sold
under other brand names. For
further information, call Max-
tor in San Jose, California, at
408/432-1700.

Mac II-
Designed
Bvisiness Cards

A major problem with
Macintosh color has
been the lack of popu-
larly priced, high-quality color
printers. To fill this need. Bril-
liant Color is now offering a
special photographic hard-copy
service for Mac II color files.

Here's how it works. You
paint any color image you want
within a 900-by-540-pixel area
on a Mac II, using a program

like PixelPaint that measures
the image in pixels. Within this
perimeter, leave a minimum
margin of 30 pixels, because
this area is likely to be cropped.
Save your creation as a color
PICT file and mail the disk to
Brilliant Color, PO. Box 391776,
Mountain View, CA 94039,
along with a check for $15 and
your return address. You'll re-
ceive 100 photographic busi-
ness cards of your single image.
(It’s $15 for each additional set
of 100.) Allow two to three
weeks for delivery.

Normally, there is a setup
charge of $9.95 for this prod-
uct, but as a special offer to
Macworld readers. Brilliant
Color founder Barry Brilliant
has waived this setup fee until
October 1, 1988.

Brilliant Color also offers a
catalog of designs from which
cards may be chosen. For
$19.95 per setup and $15 per
100 cards. Brilliant Color will
merge your text with the de-
sign. For $34.95 per setup and
$15 per 100 cards, the company
will include your photo as well.

Brilliant Color includes de-
signs from outside artists in its
catalog. For consideration, sub-
mit your file, both with and
without sample text. Outside
artists receive a royalty of 5
percent of the setup charge
each time a catalog customer
chooses an outside design. For
further information, call Bril-
liant Color at 415/969-6309.

These business
cards were de-
signed on a Mac II.
Design your oivtiy
and Brilliant Color
will print 100 of
each design for $15-

AI Systems
from the MS-
DOS World

H Tw^o established MS-
DOS artificial intel-
ligence (Al) systems
are now available on the Mac.
One, Digitalk’s Smalltalk/V,
is an integral part of Apple’s
six-year experimental program
to harness the power of com-
puters in an educational
environment.

Smalltalk/V, long seen as
one of the best-value object-
oriented programming envi-
ronments on the PC, made its
Mac appearance in June. The
$99.95 product is a fast and ro-

Digitalk's George Bosworth
brought Smalltalk/V to the Mac.

bust implementation of Dig-
italk’s Smalltalk/V, and it’s gain-
ing increased acceptance in the
AI community as a program-
ming environment.

A second AI development
system comes from Informa-
tion Builders, Inc. (IBI). IBI re-
cently acquired a long-estab-
lished expert-system shell,
Levels, and has just begun ship-
ping a Macintosh version. The
product, formerly known as
Insight II +, is a classic expert-
system development environ-
ment that has already been
adopted as a development tool
by hundreds of companies.

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Priced at $685, the program fea-
tures a Pascal-like approach to
expert-systems design and a
button-oriented Mac interface.

These and other Mac-based
AI products and developments
are described in a special re-
port entitled A/ on the Macin-
tosh (1988), available from In-
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vendor lists and product com-
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-Dan Shafer

Star Wars
Effects on
the Mac

PostScript is the most
advanced popular
graphics standard now
available on the Macintosh. Its
line-drawing and font-render-
ing capabilities made desktop
publishing a reality. And soon
the kind of graphics tools used
to film the special effects of the
motion picture Star Wars may
be coming to a Mac near you.

To begin our journey
through the last 20 years of
computer graphics, let s start
with a typical black-and-white,
PostScript-like page and add
features such as color, three-
dimensional objects, shaded
surfaces, multiple lights, reflec-
tivity, animation, and interac-
tion (between the screen and
your commands, for instance).
Any one of these capabilities
represents a major technical tri-
umph that has taken hundreds
of people, and millions of dol-
lars, to make a commercial
reality.

This state-of-the-art technol-
ogy is now coming to the Mac-
intosh via Pixar — a spin-off
company from Lucasfilm, the

This Pixar-generated image contains over 80,000 individual
elements. It was created using a new graphics standard called
RenderMan, which could eventually come to the Mac.

creator of Star Wars and The
Empire Strikes Back. Pixar is
now largeh^ owned by Steve
Jobs, one of the cofounders of
Apple and current president
of NeXT.

So what s a Mac II doing in
the specialized and expensive
world of animated, 3-D comput-
er graphics? Actually, it’s ex-
pected to take the place of a
much more expensive worksta-
tion, like a Sun or an Apollo,
that’s normally used to control
image processing on a $29,500
Pixar computer. Add the appro-
priate software and video hard-
ware, and you have the basic
makings of a very advanced
graphics-modeling system that
can create spectacular video
animations of complicated 3-D
objects.

Pixar is not only bringing
these capabilities to the Macin-
tosh, it’s offering a graphics
rendering standard that defines
all these features in a proposal
called RendenMan, which has
been endorsed by companies
such as Apollo Computer, Intel-
ligent Light, MIPS Software De-
velopment, NeXT, Prime Com-
puter, Stellar Systems, Sun
Microsystems, and Symbolics.
Pixar hopes such a standard
will have the same success in
popularizing computer graph-
ics as PostScript has had in pro-
moting DTP.

Of course, Pixar’s systems
are already far less costly than

they were a few years ago,
when it cost over a million dol-
lars to generate photo-realistic
graphics. In a few more years,
the price tag could be under
$10,000. For more information,
and to obtain your copy of
RenderMan, call Pixar in
San Rafael, California, at
415/258-8100.

Readers’ Views
about Apple’s
Lawsuit

This month’s reader
survey focuses on
Apple’s lawsuit against
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard
for “copyright infringement
and unfair competition.” We
sent surveys to 1000 randomly
selected Macworld readers. Of
the 450 responses received, 50
percent agreed w ith Apple’s de-
cision to sue, 30.7 percent dis-
agreed, and 19.3 percent were
undecided.

Interestingly, although half
the respondents agreed with
Apple’s decision to sue, only
22.4 percent expected Apple to
win; 30.9 percent expected
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard
to win.

We also asked respondents
to comment on the lawsuit, and

w^e received hundreds of obser-
vations. Here’s a sampling.

“As one who has used both a
Macintosh and Microsoft Win-
dows on an IBM PC, I think
Macintosh has a good case
against Microsoft.”

“I’m surprised it took so long
to reach this stage. It’s only a
matter of time before IBM and
Apple wage the battle for hege-
mony reminiscent of VHS and
Beta in the VCR industry. Re-
grettably, the Macintosh is the
likely casualty.”

“While I believe Apple has a
very thin case, the act of suing
will undoubtedly help its busi-
ness by calling attention to the
Mac’s desirable features and by
slowing the competition. The
risk is to lose outright — then
direct copying could ensue, to
Apple’s severe disadvantage.”

“New developments in sci-
ence are for all the world and
shouldn’t be restricted in us-
age. What w^ould have hap-
pened if Edison had restricted
electricity?”

“It may be futile closing the
barn doors after the windows
are out.” □

Which one of tlie following
reasons do you think is Apple's
real reason for filing the law'suit?

. Protect Modntosh interface 37.5%

Gain publidty for Moc interfoce 2.1%

I

Oiscouroge development of opplicotions
for MS's Windov« & H P’s New Wove 6.7%

- Slow down IBM's development of OS/2 32.0%

Discooroge development of Moc clones 21.7%

Based on 450 respondents.

Readers express divergent
views about Applets real reason
for suing Microsoft and
Hewlett-Packa rd.

Macworld 135

Erst lesson:

Visit us at the
MacWorld Exposition
in Boston, MA
August 10-13, Booth 1540
Bayside Exposition Center

SOFTWARE

All software is not copy-protected unless
specified copy-protected (CP).

Aatrix Software

Aatrix Payroll $115.

Aatrix Payroll PLUS 189.

Aba Software

“Draw it again, Sam” (paint program) .... 89.

Access Technology

MindWrite2.0 95.

MindWrite Express (WP /if/e exc/7angej . . . 149.
Trapeze ('spreads/?ee/ & grapA?/csj 159.

|-v:'

|K: ... -9^:^

Odesta

GeoC^wery-Information based on location needs
a geographical database for intuitive searches
and sorting. Includes popular templates $295.

Acius

4th Dimension (relational database) 529.

Adobe Systems

Adobe Illustrator '88 325.

The Collector’s Edition fEPS c//p*a/tj 79.

Adobe Type Libraries call

Newsletters (Century Old Style, ITC Franklin

Gothic, ITC Galliard) 269.

Aegis Development

Doug Clapp’s Word Tools 42.

Affinity Microsystems

Affinifile (DA filer) 46.

Tempo 1 .2 (macros for your Mad) 52.

Tern po 1 1 (power user 's macro utility) 89 .

Allan Bonadio Associates

Expressionist 2.0 (equation processor) ... 79.

ALSoft

DiskExpress (maximize disk performance) 26.
Font/DA Juggler Plus (w/sound utility) .... 32.

Altsys

FONTastic Plus 2.0 (advanced font editor) 54.
Fontographer ('LaserWr/rer /bnf ed/Yorj . . . 239.

Ars Nova

Practica Musica 79.

Symantec

M?cSQZ/-Squeeze your spreadsheets and stop
pushing the limits or your hard disk. Works

automatically as you open & save $49.

Ashton-Tate

Full Pai nt (expanded paint program) 69 .

FullWrite (WP w/page layout capabilities) 275.
dBASE Mac (relational, req. MacPIus) 295.

Berkeley System Design

Stepping Out II (screen extender) 54.

Biyth

Omnis 3 Plus/Express fdafabasej 275.

Omnis 3 Plus/Express (2*5 users) 489.

Bogas Productions

Studio Session (music creation) 49.

Country, Heavy Metal, or String Quartet ... 15.

Borland International

Sidekick pne/uofes A/faeP/anj 65.

Turbo Pascal fHEScompaf/b/ej 65.

Eureka: The Solver 129.

Reflex Plus (/n/b managemenf too/; 165.

Brainpower

StatView 512+ (fulkfeatured) 175.

DaXaScan (converts charts to numbers ) .... 119.
DesignScope (electronic circuit design). . : . 128.
MathView Professional (num. analysis ) .... 145.

ArchiText (search, link & manage text) 195.

Bravo Technologies

MacCalc (easy to use spreadshee/; 79.

Bright Star Technology

Alphabet Blocks (teaches phonetic sounds) 32.

Talking Tiles (preschool phonetics) 79.

HyperAnimator (adds personalized speech) 89.
Broderbund ... CP

Jam Session (create your own tunes) 30.

Print Shop (create cards and memos) 36.

Geometry or Physics 60.

CAMDE

Nutri-Calc Plus fto//*featored program; ... 175.

CasadyWare

Fluent Fonts (two-disk set) 27.

Fluent Laser Fonts (Vo/s. 1-19) eac/7 45.

CE Software

Calendar Maker (create custom calendars) 28.

Disktop (powerful DA Finder) 28.

QuicKeys (reduce mouse movemenfs; .... 54.
QuickMail (10 users) 179.

Challenger Software

MacSD (3D graphics. CAD features) 119.

Chang Labs

Rags to Riches 3-Pak (GL, AR, & AP) 289.

C.A.T (contacts, activities, time) 239.

Inventory Control or Professional Billing . . $239.
Professional or Retail Business 3 Pak 359.

Cricket Software

Plct-0*Graph (color on the Mac II) 105.

Cricket Graph (multiple windows) 119.

Cricket Draw (advanced draw capabilities) 169.
Cricket Presents (MacPIus, SE&II) 289.

DataViz

MacLink Plus f/rar7sfer/l4ac//8M da/a; .... 145.

Davidson ... CP

Math Blaster! (grades 1-6) 27.

Deneba Software

Merriam-Webster's Thesaurus 36.

Comment 2.0 fe/ec/ron/cPos/’//no/es; .... 54.

Canvas DA (contains 80% of Canvas) 54.

Canvas 1 .0 (free upgrade to 2.0) 109.

Coach (interactive spell checker) 54.

Coach Professional 109.

DreamMaker

MacGallery (HyperCard or MacPaint format) 29.

Dubl-Click Software

Calculator Construction Set 36.

World-Class Fonts! (1 & 2 thru 5&6) each 45.
WetPaint Clip Art ft & 2 thru 15 & 16) each 45.

Electronic Arts

Thu nder ! (Batteries Included spell checker) 30.

Disk Tools Plus (8 DAs plus tools) 31 .

Deluxe Music Construction Set 61 .

Enzan-Hoshigumi USA

MacCalligraphy (create unique designs) . . 109.

Japanese Clip Art call

Farallon Computing

MacRecorder^'^' Sound System 145.

Fifth Generation Systems

Suitcase (font and DA utility) 37.

PowerSXaiion (alternative to Finder) 37.

fasXBack Mac (powerful backup utility) .... 54.
1st Byte ... CP

First Shapes, KidTalk, MathTalk Fractions,
MathTalk, SmoothTalker. Speller Bee . .each 32.
Foundation Publishing
Comic People (create your own characters) 25.

Comic Strip Factory ('crea/e ca/toons; 45.

Freesoft

Red Ryder 10.3 (communications) 55.

FWB Software

Hard Disk Partition 45.

Hard Disk Util (program backup) 54.

Brainpower

DataScan-Anaiyzt those graphs and gets to the
real info. DataScan converts your charts to
easily read numeric data $ 119.

^ j\t 8000 feet; you get used to waiting’^

"Gentlemen^

just wanted to drop you a note express-
ing my delight in your speedy service.

^^You see; Ouray Colorado is well known
for jeeping hot springs^ mayor C. W.
McCall or ^^Convoy^^famC; and some

f reat scenes from tne movie ^^True Grit.^^
ut here at 8000 feet, where the snow

in the hills can still be deep in May and
it^s a 40 minute drive (one way) to the
nearest supermarket; you get used to
waiting for mail order deliveries. And
waiting. And waiting Not with you
guys. In fact, this is the only time I have
ever received a f^ackage in 14 hours!’

f Robert R. Wier
Ouray, CO

MacCcainectiori

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Symantec

U^htSfpeed C 3.i?-The ultimate development
environment. Features extremely fast compiler^
faster linker^ multi-window text editor^ &
powerful source-level debugger $ 95 .

Simon & Schuster

Typing Tutor IV (typing instruction) 35.

SmethersBarnes

Prototyper (design & edit prototypes) 75.

SoftStyle

Epstart (Epson printer driver, CP) 27.

Laserstan (Hewlett-Packard Laserjet, CP). . . 58.

Printworks for the Mac ('dot mafr/xj 43.

Printworks for the Mac (daisywheel) 56.

Printworks for the Mac (iOon-PostSc/'/pPj . . . 85.
SoftView

MaclnUse (time-use manager) 42.

TaxView Planner 1987-1991 49.

FormSet Business Forms Edition 59.

Software Discoveries

Merge Write (MacWrite mail merge) 35.

Record Holder Plus fdata manager; 45.

Software Ventures

Microphone 1.1 (includes Glue^^) 119.

Microphone II ('Mu/t/F/ndercornpaf/d/e; . . . 229.

Solutions, Inc.

SmartScrap & The Clipper 35.

SuperGlue (total graphic integration) 52.

The Curator (access your artwork) 79.

Springboard ... CP

Art a la Mac Volume 1 or 2 23.

Early Games (counting, shapes, ages 2-6). . 28.
Certificate Maker (over 2(70 ce/t///cates.O. • • • 24.
Certificate Maker Library Vol. 1 18.

SuperMac Software

SuperSpool 4.0 (very fast, top-rated) 54.

SuperLaserSpool 2.0 82.

Multi-User SuperLaserSpool 199.

D\ski\[ (backup & restore utility) 54.

Network Diskfit (automatic back up) 199.

Sentinel (encryption) 155.

PixelPaint (color Paint program) 259.

Survivor Software

MacMoney (personal finance) 62.

Symantec

MacSQZ! (use w/Microsoft Excel) 49.

SU M (comprehensive disk utilities package) 59.

More (Living Videotext outliner) 175.

H FS N avigator (search for buried files) 34 .

Laserspeed ('LaserWr/ter ut///ty; 55.

Lightspeed Pascal (great debugger) 65.

Lightspeed C (top-rated C Compiler) 95.

CAPP’s for Lightspeed C or Pascal 49.

Symmetry

3G Graphics

Images with Impact (PostScrif.

Telegraphies

HyperTutor (HyperTalk tutorial

Think Educational ... CP

T/Maker

ClickArt Personal Graphics, Effects,

Publications, Letters Vol. 1 or 2,

Holidays, Business Images each 28.

Christian Images 35.

Bombay, Plymouth, or Seville Laser font ... 45.

EPS Illustrations (over 3 Meg's worth) 75.

Write Now 2.0 (WP w/100,000 spell checker)^ 09.
TML Systems

TML Pascal II (new & improved compiler). . . 79.

TOPS

TOPS Teleconnector (DIN8 or DB9) 39.

TOPS (file-server/LAN software) 119.

TML Systems
TML Pascal //-Create any type of Macintosh
program. Native code Pascal compiler includes
complete Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
software & documentation $ 79 .

TOPS Repeater 132.

Traveling Software

LAP-LINK Mac 85.

True BASIC

LANGUAGE & TOOLKITS
True BASIC 2.0 (interpreter & compiler) .... 59.
3D Graphics, Sorting & Searching, Advanced
String, Business Graphics, Scientific Graphics

or Mathematicians Toolkit each 49.

EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE

Algebra I or II, Pre-Calculus, Trigonometry,

Discrete Math, Probability. Calculus.

Arithmetic & MacFunction each 35.

TrueSTAT (statistics) 49.

Unicorn ... CP

Animal Kingdom (ages 6-12) 27.

Math Wizard (math games, ages 5-10) 27.

Decimal Dungeon (ages 9 & up, 1-2 players) 27.

Fraction Action farcade sty/e format; 27.

Mac Robots (preschool to age 6) 27.

Read-A-Rama (reading, ages 5-8) 32.

William & Macias

DiskFinder (DA disk catalog) 29.

$199.

myDiskLabeler w/Color (req. ImageWriter H) $31 .

. call

myDiskLabeler w/LaserWriter option ....

WordPerfect

. . 34.

. 36.

WordPerfect Mac fword processor; . . . .

. 185.

. 38.

Working Software

. 58.

Lookup (90,000 word dictionary)

. . 29.

Findswell (locate documents fast)

. . 29.

. 59.

Spellswell (spelling checker)

. . 42.

Spellswell Legal or Medical Dictionary . .

. . 54.

. 30.

Zedcor

Z Basic (fast basic compiler)

. . 65.

. 28.

DeskPaint 2.0 (DA paint product)

.. 75.

GAMES

Accolade ... CP

Hardball ('daseda/Zs/mu/atfon; 23.

Activision ... CP

Shanghai (Mah Jongg strategy) 24 .

Avalon Hill ... CP

MaePro Football 28.

Baudvilie ... CP

Guitar Wizard or Rainy Day Games 22.

Blue Chip ... CP

Millionaire (stock market simulation) 35.

Broderbund Software ... CP

Ancient Art of War (military strategy) 27.

Buliseye ... CP

Ferrari Grand Prix or Fokker TriPlane 32.

Electronic Arts ... CP

Ogre (tank simulation) 20.

Patton vs Rommel or Scrabble 27.

Chessmaster 2000 28.

Epyx ... CP

Sub Battle Simulator 24.

Winter Games (Olympic events) 24.

Greene, Inc. ... CP

Crystal Quest ffop-rated co/or arcade; .... 24.

Infinity Software ... CP

Go or Grand Slam Tennis 27.

Infocom ... CP

Leather Goddesses 24.

Beyond Zork 30.

Classic Mystery Library; Moonmist,

Suspect. & Witness 36.

Science Fiction Classics: Hitchhiker’s.

Planetfall, & A Mind Forever Voyaging .... 36.
Zork Trilogy 42.

True BASIC

True BASIC 2.^?-By the people who know what
BASIC should be! Kemeny & Kurtz-original
authors of the BASIC language. New version
includes Runtime Library $ 59 .

MacConnection + ^3

Great Wave Software

TimeMasters (learn about time, ages 4+) $22.

KidsTime fedL/caf/ona/, ages 3-8J 26.

American Discovery (U.S. facts & fun) 39.

Crystal Paint (graphic symmetries) 41 .

ConcertWare+ (music composition) 39.

ConcertWare+ MIDI 79.

Greene, Inc.

QuickDEX (DA database) 32.

Ideaform

MacLabeler or DiskQuick 27.

HyperBook Maker (print stacks into book ) . . 31 .

Imagine

Smart Alarms (DA rem/ncfer system; 35.

Multi-user Appointment Diary 85.

Infosphere ... CP

LaserServe ^network so/twarej 62.

ComServe (modem sharer) 124.

MacServe flnetwork so/tware; 158.

Innovative Data Design

MacDraft (object-oriented graphics) 149.

Intuit

Quicken ('persona/accoL/nf/ng; 35.

Kent Marsh Ltd.

The NightWatch or MacSafe 89.

LaserWare

LaserPaint Color II 379.

Layered

Notes for... Excel. Works or Word 40.

Insight Expert AR. GL. or AP 479.

Insight Expert Inventory or Time Billing ... 479.
Learning Company ... CP

Reader Rabbit (ages 4-7) 33.

Letraset

Image Studio or Ready, Set, Go!4 279.

Linguist's Software

SuperFrench/German/Spanish 39.

MacKanji or MacKorean 59.

MacHebrew Scriptures 79.

hAacChmese (supplements available) 79.

LaserFrench/German/Spanish 79.

LaserGreek, LaserHebrew, or LaserTech ... 79.
Lundeen & Associates

ys/oTksP\usSpe\\ (spell checker for Works). . . 46.
WorksPlus Command (macros for Works) . . 60.

MacroMind

VideoWorks II HyperCard Driver 62.

VideoWorks II Accelerator 62.

VideoWorks II (animation tool) $118.

MacroPac International

101 Macros for Excel 44.

Manhattan Graphics

ReadySet.Show (joresen/af/ons; 289.

MECA

Managing Your Money (7/na/)ce; 129.

Mediagenics (formerly Activision)

Business Class or City to City 30.

Focal Point or Reports 59.

Microiytics

Word Finder (synonym finder) 35.

GOier (text finder) 45.

Microseeds Publishing

Be6\jx (fast & easy backup utility) 65.

Microsoft

Basic Interpreter 3.0 62.

Microsoft Write 1 .0 (w/spell checker) 113.

Multiplan 1.1 or File 1.05 119.

Basic Compiler 1.0 125.

Fortran 2.2 (compiler) 189.

Works 1 . 1 (integrated tool) 189.

Microsoft Mail (up to four users) 195.

Microsoft Mail (up to 10 users) 325.

BrightStar Technology

AJpImkt Blocks-lct this fully animated talking

elf introduce your child to the magical world of

reading $32.

Exce\ 1 .5 (power spreadsheet) 249.

Word 3.02 (powerful word processor) .... 249.
PowerPoint 2.0 fpresentef/onsj 249.

Migent

\n House Accountant (small business) .... 119.

Miles Computing

Orchestra of Fonts Vol. 4 special 19.

Mac the Ripper Vol. 3 (req. Paint program). . 27.
Peoples, Places & Things Vol. 5 27.

Mindscape

The Perfect Score; SAT (CP) 46.

ComicWorks fcreate yoL/r own com/cs; .... 47.
GraphicWorks (newsletters & posters) 84.

Monogram

Dollars & Sense fhome. sma/Zbus/ness;. ... 81.
Business Sense (full-featured) 279.

Nantucket

McMax fdaAS£///compafZb/e; 175.

Nashoba Systems

FWetAaker 4 (feature-packed database) ... 175.

Nolo Press

WillMaker 3.0 (prepare your own will) 35.

North Edge Software

Timeslips III fZ/me& expense frack/ng; .... 119.

Manhattan Graphics
Rea/iySetShow-Comhincs the utility of text,
graphics, charting and presentation manage-

ment software in a single, easy-to-use

Odesta

GeoQuery (geographical database) 295.

Double Helix II (relational, custom menus) 339.

Olduvai Software

DA-Switcher (unlimited desk accessories) . . 25.

Post ART (clip art, 3 disk set) 35.

Icon-lt! (create custom icon bars) 39.

FontShare (share PostScripC^ fonts) 149.

Read-lt!TS (OCR software for Thunderscan) 79.

Read-\t\ (300 dpi OCR softv^re) 199.

OWL International

Guide 2.0 (hypertext, free-form info) 119.

Guide Envelope System 99.

Palantir

MacType (typing instruction) 31 .

inTalk (communication to emulation) 119.

Passport Designs ... CP

Mastertracks Jr. 109.

Mastertracks Pro (music editor) 259.

Clicktracks 225.

Peripherals Computers & Supplies
KaleidaGraph (data analysis & graphics) . . 125.

yersaJerm (terminal emulator/comm.) 69.

VersaTerm-PRO (powerful terminal prog.) . . 199.
Personal Computer Peripherals

HFS Backup 28.

Postcraft International

Laser FX (PostScripV^ fonts special effects) 115.

ProVUE Development

Over\/\JE (power-packed database) 149.

Rubicon Publishing ... CP

Dinner At Eight-Encore Edition Bundle .... 51 .

Satori

BulkMailer 3.2 fma/Z/ng Z/sZs; 79.

BulkMailer Plus fup to 90. OCX) names; .... 195.

Components GL (customizable) 389.

Legal Billing (attorneys to accountants) . . . 369.

Legal Billing II (full trust accounting) 539.

Project Billing farc/7/ZecZs to engineers;. . . . 439.
Sensible Software

Sensible Speller 45.

Sensible Grammar 55.

Silicon Beach Software

Silicon Press (printer utility, 512k) 41 .

World Builder (jorogram creator; 41.

SuperPaint 1.1 (graphics program) 79.

Super3D (3D modeling & animation) 159.

Digital Darkroom (image-enhancement) . . 159.

MMac to school

MacroMind

Mazewars + (play via modem or netv\/ork) $31 .

Microsoft ... CP

Flight Simulator (the Mac takes flight) 32.

Micro Sports

MSFL Pro League Football 32.

Miies Computing ... CP

Down Hill Racer (3D ski simulation) 24.

Harrier Strike Mission II 27.

Fool’s Errand (puzzles, mazes and more). . 27.
Mindscape ... CP

Colony (3-D adventure) 30.

Trust & Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot,
Crossword Magic. Balance of Power. Deja Vu,
Shadowgate. Uninvited each 30.

PBi Software ... CP

Strategic Conquest (multi-user) 35.

Brainpower

StatView 51Z + -The professional's data analysis
package. Includes descriptive and comparative
statistics, multi-variate and feor analyses,
graphiG and more $175.

Primera Software ... CP

Smash Hit Racquetball II 22.

Psion ... CP

Psion Chess (3D and multi-lingual) 31 .

Sierra On-Line ... CP

Leisure Suit Larry fsw/ng/ngs/ng/e ///eh ... 23.

King’s Quest I, II. or III 30.

Space Quest ^save the universe!) 30.

Silicon Beach Software

Airborne! (CP, digitized sounds) 20.

Enchanted Scepters (CP, over 200 scenes) 21 .

Dark Castle (top-rated arcade action) 27 .

Beyond Dark Castle fsuper segue/; 27.

Apache Strike f30/7e//cop/erac//on; 27.

Simon & Schuster ... CP

Star Trek— The Kobayashi Adventure 24.

Promethian Prophecy 24.

Sir-Tech ... CP

Mac Wizardry fh/gh-rafed/an/asy; $35.

SPHERE, Inc.

Tetris (the Soviet Challenge) 26.

PT-109. GATQ. Orbitor, or Falcon 26.

XOR

Pro Challenge (football) 30.

NFL Challenge (’w////us/ra/ec//?andPoo/c; .. 64.

HARDWARE

Manufacturer’s minimum limited warranty
period is listed after each company name.
Some products in their line may have longer
warranty periods.

1 Meg SIMMs call for availability.

Abaton ... lifetime

ProPoint ADB (Mac SEorll) 99.

Asher Engineering ... lifetime

Turbo Trackball (Mac SEorll) 79.

AST Research ... 6 months

Mac 286 (MS-DOS on your Mac II) call

AST TurboScan (300 dpi scanner) call

AST TurboLaser P/S call

Curtis Manufacturing ... iifetime
SURGE SUPPRESSORS

Salestup (6 outlets) 21.

Diamond f6 ouf/e/sj 32.

Emerald (^6 ou//e/s; 6 // cord; 36.

Sapphire f3ouf/efs;E/Vf//RF/////ered; 47.

Ruby (6 outlets: EMI/RFI filtered; 6 ft cord) 59.
Cutting Edge

CE 105ADB Keyboard 135.

800k Disk Drive 175.

The Wedge XL 30+ SCSI Hard Drive . . . 629.
The Wedge XL 45+ SCSI Hard Drive . . . 829.

Datadesk ... 2 years

MAC- 101 (specify Mac) 139.

HyperDialer (auto-dial for Mac & HyperCard) 26.
Dove Computer ... 90 days

SCSI Interface/Port 85.

MacSnap 524 or 524E 195.

MacSnap524Sf572Eto 1 Megv\//SCSI). . . 219.

MacSnap 548 or 548E 399.

WiacSnap5A8S(512Eto2Megw/SCSI) .. 479.

MacSnap 2SE (Mac SE to 2 Meg) 299.

MacSnap Plus 2 (MacPIus to 2 Meg) 299.

MacSnap Plus 2H (MacPIus to 2. 5 Meg) call

MacSnap Plus 4H ('P/us/// /o 4 /Weg; call

68020 Accelerator Boards for Mac SE call

1024 Option (1 Meg accelerator or Mac II

memory expansion) 299.

Math Kit /maf/7 co-processor c/7/pser; .... 225.
Ergotron ... 1 year

The Muzzle (virus protector!) 65.

Mac II Workstation call

l-8(X)/Macs^Lisa

Mouse Cleaner 360® $15.

MacTllt or MacTilt SE 68.

M acTilt f/or /arge mon/tor; 85.

Farailon Computing ... 1 year

PhoneNET-AppleTalk 120 9.

PhoneNET PLUS (DB-9 or DINS) 36.

PhoneNET StarController^'^ 1395.

PhoneNET Punch Down Block Wire Kit . . . 69.

TrafficWatch (monitor network) 159.

FWB Software ... 1 year

HammerDrives ('91-300 /Weg; call

Hayes ... 2 years

Smartcom II (communications) 88.

Smartmodem 1200 299.

Smartmodem 2400 449.

MacPIus/SE/ll 1200 or 2400 Package .... call
Kensington ... 1 year

Mouseway fmouse pad; 8.

Mouse Pocket (ADB) 8.

Mac Plus/Mac SE Cover 9.

Printer Stand 16.

Disk Drive Cleaning Kit 20.

Macintosh II Stand 20.

Universal Copy Stand 22.

Extra Long ADB Keyboard Cable 25.

Anti-glare Filter f/br /WacP/us or SE; 33.

Macintosh II Monitor Extension Cable .... 33.

Apple Security System 34.

SuperBase (tilt/swivel & shelf) 34.

Printer Muffler (80 column) 43.

Printer Muffler (132 column) 58.

Printer Muffler Stand (80 column) 25.

Masterpiece 400 64.

Masterpiece Mac II 105.

InBox-end paper clutter. Send messages through
your AppleTalk network! Includes message
center and three personal connections .. $199.
lnB(x Personal Gnmtions-ead\add^\ Mac. $75.

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* Defective software rcplaccd immediately. Defective hardware replaced or repaired at our discretion.

and Mac to work.

A-B Box (mini DIN '8) $64.

System Saver Mac 64.

System Saver SE 64.

Turbo Mouse (specify MacPIus, SE or II ) . . 109.
Koala Technologies ... 90 days

MacVision 1 .4 (digitizer) 169.

Kraft Systems ... 1 year

3-Button QuickStick (specify Mac type) ... 39.

Kurta ... lifetime

IS ADB Tablet (graphics tablet) 259.

Cordless 4 Button Cursor 99.

Migent ... 1 year

Pocket Modem (ext. 300/1200 baud) .... 115.
MSC Technologies ... lifetime

A -i- Mouse (optical mouse) 65.

A + Mouse ADB (for MacSE&ll) 85.

Nutmeg Systems ... 90 days

Nutmeg 15" Monitor (for MacPIus or SE) 1295.

Nutmeg 15" Monitor (for Mac II) 1395.

Nutmeg 19" Plus (for MacPIus or SE) . . . 1495.

Nutmeg 19" Plus ffor Mac//; 1595.

Nuvotech

TurboNet/AppleTalk connector cable 6.

TurboNet ST (self-terminating) 27.

Orange Micro ... 1 year

Grappler (universal parallel interface) 79.

Passport Designs ... 90 days

Passport MIDI Interface 95.

MIDI Transport ('2 M/D/ /n, 5 MIDI out) . . . 339.
Personal Computer Peripherals ... 2 years
HD-WSI (connects Apple HD 20 to SCSI) 269.

MacBottom HD 21 Meg SCSI 749.

MacBottom HD 21 Meg SCS^ w/Modem 915.

MacBottom HD 32 Meg SCSI 899.

MacBottom HD 32 Meg SCSI w/Modem 1045.

MacBottom HD 45 Meg SCSI 1149.

MacBottom HD 45 Meg SCSI w/Modem 1295.

MacBottom HD 70 Meg SCSI 1395.

MacBottom IHD-144 Meg (for Mac II: 1 yr.) 2189.
Practical Peripherals ... 5 years

1200 Baud External Modem 109.

2400 Baud External Modem 189.

Shiva

NetSerial X232 309.

NetModem V1200 359.

NetModem V2400 479.

SoftStyle ... 90 days

MacEnhancer f/orp/of/ers fopr/nfers;. . . . 159.

Summagraphics ... 90 days

MacTablet12"x12" $379.

Thunderware ... 90 days

ThunderScan 4.0 with PowerPort 199.

Mac II Power Accessory 42.

DISKS

Double-sided diskettes.

Sony 3V2" DS/DD Disks (box of 10) 18.

Fuji 3V2" DS/DD Disks (box of 10) 19.

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142 September 1988

T

Xelevision is news and movies. Macintosh
is graphics and page layouts, scrolling columns
instead of talking heads. The ability to combine
these two mediums by recording computer-generated graphics
on videotape promises to make video a viable solution for
publishing and presentations. But while computer graphics has
advanced rapidly in the past 10 years, television
technology has remained relatively inert for the
past 30. In order for video publishing to succeed,
affordable products must bridge the gap between
the television studio and the desktop.

Existing products from Computer Friends, RasterOps,
Julian Systems, and Comtrex — as well as forthcoming ones from
Truevision and Mass Micro — enable' you to easily record Mac
graphics on videotape. But the quality of the
finished tape depends largely upon the video
equipment you use. Understanding basic video

techniques can help you assess the inex itahle trade-
offs between quality and price.

The Mac Plays Video

The Macintosh and a television monitor both
paint pictures on the screen by spraying electrons
across a phosphor-coated canvas. Unlike the Mac’s
video signals, however, images destined for display
on television equipment must adhere to the rules of
the National Television System Committee (NTSC),
30-year-old specifications adopted when color tele-
vision was in its infancy.

Display the Macintosh desktop on an NTSC moni-
tor and the first things you notice are flickering lines
and illegible text. Because the television picture, or
frame, is composed of two alternating images, or
fields, both repainted 30 times a second, the variation
in fine lines from one field to the next shows up as
flicker (see “Standards Apart”). Furthermore, a televi-

sion monitor resolves into fewer lines than the Mac’s
does, so you lose detail.

Television studios compensate for these short-
comings by carefully com|')osing scenes and choosing
particular colors, graphics, and type styles. Street
scenes and barroom .sets don’t depend upon minute
hairlines or very fine dots. Computer-generated
screens, however, often do. If you’re recording a
spreadsheet on tape this could pose a problem. If, on
the other hand, you’re recording three-dimensional
balls bouncing on a computer-generated landscape,
it won’t. By following a few basic rules you can suc-
cessfully record images that reproduce well on
NTSC video equipment (.see “Tips for NTSC Video
Producers”).

Outfitting the Mac for Video Production

Let's look at the equipment you need to produce a
videotape. First, if you want color, you need a Mac II.

A) Macintosh video

===== "■■■ . =

■

■ —

noninferlaced, 66 frames

per second (Apple color card)

B) NTSC video

li( i

per second = ' frime

L 1/30,

second

Standards Apart

A) Standard Macintosh screens are painted one line at a time,
from top to bottom. The Apple Mac II video card paints a
screen in about t/ec of a second. B) Nl'SC screens consist of
two interlaced frames painted one after another. The odd-
numbered lines are scanned first, followed by all even-num-
bered lines. The two frames, ivhich make up the screen, each

take ^/6o of a second to he displayed. C) Though an NTSC dis-
play consists of 512 lines, as much as 30 percent of the display
is lost due to overscanning, blanking, and misadjustment. Of
the Mac’s standard 480 lines, only about 360 lines are dis-
played on an average NTSC monitor.

.September 1988

ROBERT CARDIN

Tips for NTSC Video Producers

I experimented with the Profes-
sional version of the TV Pro-
ducer and the RasterOps Color-
Board 100, recording numerous
screen displays on a consumer-
quality VCR. I found the follow-
ing tips, many of which appear
in the Julian Systems NTSC
Converter manual, to be a great
help in producing legible
videos.

■ Design screens so that they
occupy the center portion of

the display. About 10 to 15 per-
cent of the Mac screen, around
its edges, will not appear on an
NTSC screen or videotape.

■ Avoid dithered or alternat-
ing dot patterns. Instead use
solid shades of color. For exam-
ple to avoid flicker, use a solid
gray desktop instead of the al-
ternating black-and-white
pattern.

■ Horizontal lines should be
at least 2 pixels wide and pref-

erably should contain an even
number of scan lines. Lines
1-pixel wide are displayed only
half of the time and thus are
prone to flicker.

■ Fonts larger than 18 points
are generally legible on an
NTSC monitor.

■ Avoid extreme contrasts in
color between adjoining areas.
If you can, highlight color tran-
sitions with a line of black,
white, or gray.

Then, to record on a videotape recorder (VTR), you
need a board or an external box that produces what’s
called an NTSC composite video signal.

Unlike most Mac II video cards — which output
separate signals for red, green, and blue (RGB) —
boards from Computer Friends, RasterOps, Mass Mi-
cro, and Comtrex output a signal that combines the
color {chrominance), brightness {luminance), and
synchronization signals into one NTSC composite vid-
eo signal. These boards provide an RCA-type connec-
tor, like the ones found on most home videocassette
recorders (VCRs), to which you can attach a video ca-
ble for a recorder or NTSC monitor (see “Conhguring
the System”). I used the Computer Friends’ TV Pro-
ducer and RasterOps ColorBoard 100, which were
both shipping as 1 wrote this article, to record short
animation sequences on videotape.

Boards like the TV Producer and the ColorBoard
100 are adequate for recording images on a VCR, but

the results fall short of the quality you get from a pro-
fessional video production house. Another alternative,
Julian Systems’ NTSC Converter, offers similar results.
The NTSC Converter, a separate box that attaches to
the Mac II Color Video card or SuperMac’s Spec-
trum/8, converts the normal Mac II video signal to
an NTSC composite format.

The Advantages of RGB

Most boards that output an NTSC composite sig-
nal suffer from the same image-quality problem. In
general, video images lose their sharpness and color
definition when color and brightness information is
combined. Both RasterOps and Mass Micro, however,
claim that their boards, the ColorBoard 64 and the
Color Space, produce a high-quality NTSC signal; both
companies claim their board meets the Federal Com-
munications Commission’s specifications governing a
broadcastable NTSC signal.

Since for most boards the weakest link in the
chain is the circuitry that converts the RGB video sig-
nal to a composite NTSC signal, the solution — albeit

The animated sequences from Apple's Project 2000 videotape
(right) were created by the San Francisco— based Kenwood
Group using the Quantel PaintBox, a sophisticated video ani-
mation system. Executive producer Christina Crotvley esti-
mated the cost of production at $68,000

Macworld 145

an expensive one — is to install a board that produces
separate red, green, and blue video signals at NTSC
scanning rates. Then you can connect a professional-
quality NTSC encoder to convert the video signal from
RGB to NTSC composite format.

Forthcoming boards from Truevision, Mass Micro,
Comtrex, and the currently shipping RGB version of
Computer Friends TV Producer all offer RGB video
output. You can connect these boards directly to an ex-
ternal RGB monitor and thereby display a sharp image;
but because most video recorders, even studio mod-
els, accept NTSC composite video, you need the NTSC
encoder to convert and record the RGB signal.

Monitor Requirements

The gap between the two video standards greatly
affects the range of monitors you can choose from.
Obviously, in order to view an NTSC composite video
signal, you need an NTSC monitor. These run from the
consumer-quality models ($200- $400) to an industrial-
quality display ($800) to monitors you’d find in a tele-
vision studio ($3000). Naturally, the most expensive
models produce the sharpest images. Although the
best choice for monitoring a recorded signal is an
NTSC monitor, there are times when an RGB monitor
has advantages. Because it produces a sharper picture,
you can get better results with a large screen RGB
monitor when displaying an animated presentation, for
example. If you already use an RGB monitor to operate
the Mac II, you can avoid buying a second screen by
making the RGB monitor do double duty. In order for
it to do this, the RGB display must be capable of syn-
chronizing to the NTSC horizontal scan rate (15.734
kHz) as well as to the higher Macintosh scan rate. Mul-

tifrequency monitors like NEC’s Multisync, Sony’s Mul-
tiscan, or Mitsubishi’s DiamondVision can synchronize
to multiple rates. You wont be able to use the Apple
High-Resolution Color Monitor for viewing NTSC sig-
nals, however, because it synchronizes only to the Mac
II Video Card’s 35 kHz horizontal scan rate.

Computer Friends, Mass Micro, RasterOps, True-
vision, and Julian Systems products all require a multi-
frequency monitor in order to view the Mac’s screen
once you switch to NTSC operation.

Overlays and Keying by Color

Many visual effects, such as the weather map you
see on the nightly news, involve mixing a video signal
from a camera with a computer-generated screen. In
order to add titles or special effects to a videotape or
superimpose Mac-generated graphics onto a camera
image, the video input signal must appear in lockstep
with the Mac’s screen. The images can then be com-
bined and recorded on tape. Video cards with genlock
capabilities, like the ones from Computer Friends,
Truevision, Mass Micro, and Comtrex, allow the Mac’s
NTSC output to synchronize with video input from a
camera, videotape recorder, or master sync signal in a
production studio (see “Configuring the System’’). In
addition, boards like NuVision’s let the Mac generate
a master synchronizing signal for other video
equipment.

Once you synchronize the Mac with video equip-
ment, the most common w^ay to combine video images
is a technique called chroma- or color-keying. By
making one color transparent to the video signal, you
can superimpose a live video picture on the Mac’s
screen (see “Genlock and Chroma-keying”). For exam-

Buyer’s Guide to Video Output Boards

RasterOps
ColorBoard 100

RasterOps
ColorBoard 64
w/NTSC-genlock

Computer Friends
TV Producer

Julian Systems
NTSC Converter

NuBus slots

1

2

1 (requires Apple Mac 11 Color Card)

0, external unit

Video output

NTSC. PAL optional

NTSC, PAL optional

NTSC, RGB, PAL optional

NTSC

Video RAM

on-board

on-board

uses Apple Mac 11 Color Card

requires Apple or
SuperMac Spectrum/8

Genlock

no

NTSC, PAL optional

NTSC, PAL optional

no

Colors

256

256, 16.7 million

256

n/a

Capture image

no

no*

(optional, scheduled for release
in September)

no

Price

$1795

$2795

$799-51500**

$599

Availability

now

now'

now

now

• Frame grabber scheduled for June release. ** $1500 TV Producer RGB-Pro.

146 September 1988

A)

B)

NTSC encoder

composite

NTSC

NTSC monitor

videotope

recorder

Configuring the System

A) Boards like the Computer Friench' TV Producer or the
RasterOps Color Board 100 require a multifrequency RGB
monitor to see the desktop in NTSC mode. The composite
NTSC signal can be fed to the video recorder and monitored

on an NTSC display. B)A video card that outputs RGB requires
only an external NTSC converter. C) Boards that provide gen-
lock allow the Mac to synchronize signals from a video cam-
era ora video recorder.

Comtrex

Mac II-TV Interface

Mass Micro
Color Space II

Truevision

NuVista

1 (requires Apple Mac II

1

1

Color Card)

NTSC

NTSC, RGB, PAL

NT SC, KGB, PAL

uses Apple Mac II

on -hoard

on-Ix>ard

Color Card

NTSC

NTSC, PAL

NTSC, PAL

256

256

256,65k, 16.7 million

no

digitizer (1 sec.)

frame grabber (1/30 sec.)

$595 without genlock,

$1695

$4250 2MB, $5995 4MB

$1495 with genlock

now

.scheduled for relea.se
injuly

scheduled for relea.se in
the 4th Q

pie, you could specify that all white areas of the screen
be transparent. Then drawing a white square on the
screen would result in the video picture appearing in
that square (and in other white areas). Similarly, you
could produce a title by creating black text on a blue
background, then replacing the blue background with
the video signal.

Animating Objects

Recording a static screen image is fairly straight-
forward with the equipment discussed so far, but how
do you move objects around the screen for recording
on tape? Of course, animators like Disney used the
tried-and-true method of producing thousands of still
frames and shooting them on film one at a time. You
can still do this, but the degree of success depends
on your tolerance for tedium and the amount of time
you have.

There are two methods for producing animated
displays: recording a real-time animation played on the
Mac, or rendering a series of frames and then record-
ing a single frame at a lime. The former method re-
quires that the Mac do all the work, but even that has
its limitations. You can also use programs like Macro-
Mind’s VideoWorks or Beck-Tech’s MacMovies to create

Macworld 147

The sequences above as well as the ones on page 143 were pro-
duced by Chipp Walters at Design Edge in Houston using Sup-

two-dimensional, or cell, animations. In addition,
training software such as Course of Action from Au-
thorware or Course Builder from TeleRobotics lets you
animate two-dimensional objects on the screen. With
these programs you can put together short, animated
segments and simply run them on the Mac with a
video recorder connected.

For simulating three-dimensional designs, Visual
Information’s Dimensions Animations package en-
ables you to animate models created with Dimensions
Design. A recently released product from Silicon
Beach, Super-3D, and a new entry. Swivel 30 from Para-
comp, also let you animate three-dimensional objects
on screen. The problem with animating such objects is
that rendering, or drawing them, takes a tremendous
amount of computing power. The Mac can’t render
scenes containing complex objects at 10 to 30 frames
per second, the rate required for smooth motion. The
alternative is to render each frame individually and
then record one frame at a time.

This frame-by-frame animation method can be
used with drawing packages such as SuperPaint and

er 3D to animate and model the objects. The output of the TV
Producer card teas fed to a Panasonic AG1950 VHS tape deck.

MacDraw, but it is time consuming and requires stu-
dio-quality recording equipment. Consumer-quality
VCRs cannot record one frame at a time with any accu-
racy. Nor do they allow the Mac to position the tape, a
required feature when recording animation and spe-
cial effects.

Aegis Development has announced its Animation
Workshop software, which will consist of modules for
titling, cell animation, and solid 3-D modeling. Anima-
tion packages are also expected from Electronic Arts,
WaveFront Technologies, TimeArts, and AT&T Imaging.
Packages like these, when used in conjunction with
studio-quality recording equipment, promise to yield
professional results.

The Mac in the Studio

There’s a huge difference between what you can
produce with the Mac using a consumer-quality VCR
and the results video production houses get using pro-
fessional-quality equipment.

Recording Mac-generated images on a consumer-
quality VHS deck is a little like listening to Pavarotti on

Recording at a Glance

Price

Expensive

A

Inexpensive

($165,000)

($70,000)

($30,000)

($8000)

($5000)

($ 200 )

Quality

High/Broadcast

Digital deck

L

1" digital tape

r analog tape

1/2" component tape (Betacam)

Mi(

-range/industrial

3/4" analog tape

Z

1/2" S-VHS

lov

»/Consumer

1/2" VHS

Brand

Abekas A-64

Sony BVH, Ampex VPR
Sony Betacem, Panosonic Mil
Sony BVU, JVC CR850U
Panosonic A6-7500
Home VCR decks

Video recorders range from the inexpensive, consumer-grade broadcast -quality' tapes require Vj-inch, ^ 4 -inch, or 1-inch

VHS units to the most expensive 1-inch digital videotape decks Betacam units, the most promising personal decks are the Su-
found only in professional studios. While industrial and perVHS recorders, which use the S-VHS format tapes.

148 September 1988

NTSC monitor
final mixed video

Genlock and Chroma-keying

Locking the Mac*s display to the signal from a video camera prevalent method, makes a color or combination of colors

allows Mac-generated text and graphics to he combined with transparent to the video signal,
the camera image in various ways. Chroma keying, the most

a dictaphone. You might recognize the voice, but it s
doubtful whether you could tolerate the sound quality.
In fact, regardless of how clean a video signal you start
with, it degrades when you record it. Ultimately the
type of recorder you use determines the quality of the
final taped signal (see “Recording at a Glance”). Most
industrial-grade videos are recorded on %-inch tape,
while the highest quality results come from 1-inch or
Betacam recorders. The recently introduced Super-
VHS recorders accept Vi-’mch tape but record separate
color and brightness signals, as do Betacam models.
The S-VHS format used in Super-VI-IS machines offers
a signal quality somewhere between that of %-inch
tape and VHS. While the S-VHS and Betacam machines
offer higher quality than their NTSC counterparts,
they require a studio device called a transcoder to
convert RGB into the luminance and chrominance sig-
nals. In the future, most NTSC-board manufacturers
plan to offer cards that output the correct signals for
an S-VHS recorder.

Accurate tape positioning is another key require-
ment in professional productions. Most 1-inch, V^-inch,
and Betacam recorders use what s called a SMPTE
time-code generator to number each frame on the vid-
eotape. The code generator counts the elapsed min-
utes and seconds and the frame number; with a time-
code reader, you can position the tape accurately at
any frame for editing or adding sound. To further guar-
antee accuracy w'hen adding special effects or titles,
another device, a time-base corrector, stabilizes the re-

corder’s video signal so that the computer display is
tightly synchronized or genlocked to the recorded sig-
nal. Studio equipment differentiates an amateur pro-
duction from a professional one, but the high cost lim-
its its use to the studio.

Viable Video on a Macintosh?

Without doubt, the Mac now creates some of the
sharpest screen graphics at the lowest price around.
The ability to get those graphics onto tape makes vid-
eo a viable method of publishing. How large a part the
Mac plays in producing videos for presentations, pro-
motions, and simulations depends upon the ease wath
which forthcoming animation, simulation, and titling
software will enable users to produce professional-
looking results. Successful video publishing on the
Mac also depends on how sharp an image manufactur-
ers can deliver at an affordable price. With the prolif-
eration of S-VHS recorders and the eventual accep-
tance of high-definition television standards,
professional-quality video will be achievable on the
Mac. Broadcast-quality video, on the other hand, may
remain a studio affair for some time. But just as desk-
top-published newsletters needn’t compete with mag-
azines or newspapers, so you can still produce a lot
with Macintosh video now. □

See Where to Buy for contact information.

.Maworld 149

150 September 1988

ii.li stration by Mir.KV( h;(.ins

Paint Roundup

A brush with eight
low-cost paint programs

by Adrian Mello

raphics is the Mac’s strong suit.

In the past year, programs such as PixelPaint and
ImageStudio have upped the ante. But most people
can’t afford to sit down at a desktop with these high
rollers — each costing around $500. And the expense
doesn’t stop there; you still need a Mac II system with a
reasonable amount of memory and storage capacity in
order to use these programs as intended. Don’t forget
to add the price of a gray-scale scanner or a color out-
put device, as well.

After being awed by the high end of Mac graph-
ics, most of us have to come back to financial reality.
Reality comes in the form of several programs with
paint capabilities: Canvas, Canvas DA, ComicStrip Fac-
tory, DeskPaint, Draw It Again, Sam 2.03, FullPaint,
GraphicWorks 1.1, MacPaint 2.0, and SuperPaint. Most
of these programs cost less than $200 and have ba-
sically been designed to work within the limits of a
Mac Plus or an SE. All produce acceptable results on an
ImageWriter printer, and about half of them let you
take advantage of a laser printer’s ability to print high-
resolution text and graphics.

The category defining paint software is changing.
In fact, the name graphics software might be more ap-
propriate. Some of the programs reviewed here are
not, strictly speaking, paint programs. Several include
object-oriented capabilities. In Mac terminology, a
paint program creates images made up of a pattern of
dots, or pixels. Each dot holds one bit of information
— the pbcel is either on for black or off for white.

Paint programs are also frequently called bitmapped
graphics programs.

Object-oriented graphics programs, called draw
programs in Mac parlance, use a different technique to
construct an image. A draw^ program stores the line or
shape’s mathematical definition, rather than a fixed
pattern of dots. Even though the programs discussed
here are hybrids. I'll focus on their strengths and ^*eak-

nesses as paint programs. Paint capabilities stand apart
as a cohesive set of features, even when they are sepa-
rated from draw features in discrete layers or objects.

Ease of Use versus Features

The key to finding the best paint program comes
down to searching for the best balance between ease
of use and features. One of the best qualities of a paint
program is that you can start working with it almost
immediately. Paint programs are the closest that graph-
ics programs come to simulating the w^ay artists w'ork
with real brushes and pencils. In a paint program you
simply pick a tool from a palette and drag it across the
drawing surface. Everything you draw remains on
screen as a unified collection of dots, or pixels.

MacPaint was the first paint program, and its suc-
cessors have added more and more features to this
simple foundation. A basic set of painting tools should
include a paintbrush, a pencil, a paint bucket, and a
spray can or airbrush. A program’s palette should also
include shape tools, line tools, and an editable set of
patterns. Beyond these features each program has its
own approach to refinements. For example, instead of
a standard spray can, some programs provide control
over the spray’s shape, pattern, and flow characteris-
tics. Measuring aids such as rulers or mouse-position
readouts — and special effects such as skew, trace, in-
vert, and rotate — may or may not be included in a
paint program. Other options include the ability to
control line weights on opposing sides of a shape, and
special printing features for making cards or banners.

A complete list of refinements would take pages.
The fine points rarely out weigh the importance of a
paint program’s overall design. Nevertheless, highly
specific features of this type may make a difference to
you, depending on the type of drawings you make and

Maavodd 151

your work idiosyncrasies. You can compare some of
the programs’ features in the table “Features Sketch.’’
ril go over the most important aspects of the pro-
grams below. Although these capabilities have made
MacPaint’s successors much more powerful, they have
often also made the programs more difficult to use.
Chief among these problematic features are object-
oriented graphics and layers.

Object Objections

The problem with objects is that they can’t be
edited as naturally as bitmaps. Each object is separate
from each other object in the picture, so even though
you can see the picture as a whole you can't work with
the drawing as a whole. Whereas paint programs are
homogeneous, object-oriented programs are hetero-
geneous. To edit an object you must first select it. If ob-
jects are superimposed, you may not be able to select
the one you want without first rearranging the stacking
order of the objects. All this added manipulation can
be a nuisance.

However, objects have important advantages that
can easily outweigh their disadvantages. Objects re-
tain their identities and characteristics, and they can
always be reshaped independently of other objects in
the drawing. Object-oriented graphics also let you take
advantage of laser printers and other high-resolution
output devices.

Different programs integrate object-oriented ca-
pabilities to different degrees. For example. Canvas
and Draw It Again, Sam emphasize an object-oriented
approach. At the opposite end of the spectrum are
programs like FullPaint and MacPaint, which have no
object-oriented capabilities. ComicStrip Factory’s and
GraphicWorks’ bitmaps are drawn in objects called
easels or panels. These objects let you maintain the
integrity of different bitmapped regions in the draw-
ing. In this way the background doesn’t have to be re-
drawn when you want to alter or move something in
the foreground.

Uncovering Layers

Having to arrange objects from back to front is
probably the greatest source of irritation in using a
draw program. The problem is compounded when
paint capabilities are combined with object-oriented
capabilities, because the paint tools don’t function un-
less you are working in an object or region specified
for painting. Even experienced users catch themselves
trying pointlessly to apply paint tools on objects and
draw tools on painted areas. Programs that are chiefly
object-oriented are especially difficult in this respect.
These programs let you edit only bitmaps within spec-
ified objects, sometimes called bitmapped objects or
easels. These objects appear side by side with regular
objects so you must first distinguish and select them
before applying the appropriate tools.

A Change of Media

Illustrator Andrzej Dudzinski, whose noncomputer work reg-
ularly appears in such national magazines as the Atlantic and
Playboy, is enthusiastic about exploring new stylistic possi-
bilities using the Macintosh and MacPaint.

A partial solution to this problem is to use layers
to separate paint and draw functions. SuperPaint was
the first program to use layers to separate bitmaps
from objects. All bitmap editing is performed in one
layer, and all object editing is performed in another
layer. One of the advantages of this approach is that
you can easily separate objects from the bitmapped
portion of a drawing. If you want to concentrate on
painting, it’s best just to avoid the draw layer or to hidt
it. Unless you hide the inactive layer, however, it’s easy
to confuse bitmaps for objects in die same way that
you would if there weren’t layers.

A more common use of layers is to separate logi-
cal collections of drawing components — like separat-
ing the plumbing from the rest of the structure in a
building plan. Draw It Again, Sam iS currendy the only
program with paint capabilities that lets you create up
to ten layers. You create the layers, specify the stacking
order, and indicate in a single dialog box whether the
layers are visible, invisible, or grayed out. Although
Sam lets you use a layer exclusively for painting, paint
regions within the layer are still discrete objects, as
opposed to a single bitmapped layer. A few vendors
plan to add layers to their products in upcoming ver-
sions. Like superimposed objects, having multiple lay-
ers means that you spend extra time arranging layers
in order to work on different aspects of a drawing. A
.strong paint program should have at least one full layer
dedicated to working with a bitmap, so you don’t have
to set up an area to paint in.

Handling the Drawing

Some programs offer a set of features that deter-
mine how flexibly you can manipulate draw ings as a
wiiole. These features include multiple windows, the
ability to manipulate drawing size and orientation, and
scrolling. If you plan to make extensive use of clip art.

152 September 1988

MhXCHIOR Dir.IACOMO

or to cut and paste between two or more draw ings,
then you should look for a program that can open mul-
tiple documents simultaneously. If you plan to wx)rk on
big draw ings or you prefer to work in landscape \iew;
find a program that can accommodate the appropriate
drawing size and shape.

The flexibility of selection tools is especialK^ im-
portant when you’re working with artwork. All the
programs review^ed here include the selection mar-
quee, for selecting rectangular regions, and the lasso,
which works more like a pair of scissors cutting
around the shape you w^ant to select. Selection tools,
and drawing tools for that matter, should scroll auto-
matically w’hen they cross the screen’s edge. It’s frus-
trating to have to stop in the midst of an operation,
scroll the screen, and reselect the section of the drawl-
ing before you can move again. By the same token,
some users appreciate the ability to disable the auto-
scrolling function wlien they want to w^ork within the
confines of the screen. It’s also nice to be able to select
the entire drawling area both within and bex'ond the
screen’s edge with a single command.

Text

Object-oriented programs have another impor-
tant advantage: the w^ay they handle text. In a strict
paint program, text is only a graphic. Once you type it
in, it becomes part of the overall pattern of dots and
loses its identity as editable text. But in object-oriented
programs, text regions retain their characteristics, pro-
viding a number of advantages. Since text regions are
designed for handling text in much the same way that
a word processing program, j,^ou can edit text an^r,
return to die text later to make desired editing
changes. You can also take advantage of a laser
printer s built-in high-resolution fonts.

Not all object-oriented programs handle text in
the same w^ay.i(^?fvicStrip FaCtbi^ and Gra^icWorks
have separate text regions called hcit^&fTS; \ ou can
edit the shape of the region as well as the text it con-
tains. For example, you can type text that appears in
an oval. Some programs let you mix fonts, sizes, and
styles in the same text object. Other refinements let
you justify text left, right, or center; create patterned
text; show w'hite text on a patterned background; or
specify a custom font size.

Bits and Details

When you work with a paint program, you work
with pixels. It is not surprising that detail-oriented fea-
tures play an important role in a paint program. It’s dif-
ficult to see individual pixels, but if you look closely at
a picture you can see rough edges. Ever since MacPaint
introduced Fatbits, a feature that lets you view' the pix-
els at eight times their original size, programs have
added more flexible magnifications. Most programs

now^ let you magnify a section of the drawing in sever-
al sizes. A half-size, or 50 percent, view' is useful for
zooming out and getting a better sense of how art-
work works on a page. Ideally, all tools work at all
magnification levels, but in some programs you can’t
use tools, for example, in the 50 percent view.

Beyond just magnifying images at the 72 dots per
inch (dpi) supported by the Mac’s screen, some pro-
grams even let you edit bitmaps at higher resolutions,
such as 300 dpi. It takes more memory to manage bit-
maps at higher resolutions, so some programs restrict
the size of the bitmap you can w'ork on at one time. A
resolution beyond 300 dpi is of questionable value
since it requires a huge amount of memory — besides,
working at that level of detail is like engraving on the
head of a pin.

A related issue is w^hat types of file formats a pro-
gram can read. If you plan to edit scanned images at
300 dpi, for example, you should be able to import
a scanned image. Standard file formats that every
program should have are PICT and MacPaint. PICT
is especially important if you w^ant to work with object-
oriented graphics. Some programs even support fea-
tures of PostScript such as bezier curves and gray-scale
patterns. Because of this, you may w ant to be able to
read and write encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files. If

Object-oriented programs
have another important
advantage: the way they
handle text. In a strict paint
program, text is only a
graphic.

you want to send images to someone with different
software, you should also be able to save your work in
the appropriate file format.

That wraps up the major features to consider
w'hen you’re picking a paint program. Keep in mind
that the way you work should ultimately determine
your choice of product. Fc^r example, if your w'ork in-
volves editing TIFF images created with a scanner, you
need a program that can import this file format. In this
case, other features become secondar\'. The product
summaries that follow^ should help give you a sense of
each program’s overall design and its major strengths
and w'eaknesses.

.Macwurld 153

Features Sketch

Canvas

Canvas DA

Comic Strip Factory

DeskPaint

General

Version #

1.02m

1.02m

1.6

1.05

Minimum memory required

512KE

512KE

512K

512K

Application size

253K

49KJ

80K

32K

Preferred size in MultiFinder

597K

n/a

320K

n/a

Saves, opens MacPaint files

opens only

opens only

both

both

Saves, opens PlCl* files

both

saves only

opens only

Saves, opens TIFF files

opens only

both

List price

$195

$99.95

$69.95

$129.95

Screen layout

Drawing area

9 X 9ft.

9 X 9ft.

8 X 10 in.

55 X 55 in., ltd. by memory

Maximum number of windows

ltd. by memory

ltd. by memory'

1 plus library

3 (need multiple DAs)

Opens to full screen size

•

SE or Plas

•

Select entire document

•

•

Layers

Hides layers selectively

Panels

•

Libraries

•

1

Movable/hidable palettes

1

!

Scroll bars

•

•

•

•

Drawing tools autoscroll

•

•

shape tools only

Selection tools auto.scroll

•

•

objects only

•

Autoscroll cancelable

i

Magnification levels

unlimited

unlimited

3

9

All tools avail, in magnification

8x only

•

Grid

adjastable

y'es, can’t snap to

adjustable

Rulers, readouts

both

both

Painting

Distort

•

Skew

•

Perspective

•

Rotate by single degrees

•

1.4®

Trace edges

j

High-resolution bitmap editing

up to 2540 dpi

300 dpi

up to 4000 dpi

Paint bucket fills off-screen area

1 •

•

•

Paint in patterns

•

•

•

Patterns editable

•

•

Brushes editable

•

preselected shapes

Spray tool adjustable

•

•

no spray tool

Transfer modes

8

8

i

8

Drawing

Group/ungroup

•

•

•

Align objects

•

•

Bring to front, send to back

•

•

•

Lock

•

Show size

objects only

•

Bitmapped objects

•

•

•

Smooth polygon

•

Add/remove polygon vertex

both

both

Gray-scale patterns

Bezier curv^es

1 •

•

Text

Mix fonts, styles, sizes in blocks

•

•

•

Align text R/C/L

•

•

•

•

Editable text

•

•

balloons

1

: 1

*An additional 123K required for Cam-as Helper. -Only magnifications in powers of 2. ^Cin’t create but can use edited patterns. ‘In silhouette objects only.

154 September 1988

:: : .J ■v,:

'^^^raw It Ag^n, Sam

FullPaint

GraphicWorks

MacPaint

SuperPaint

2.03

l.le

1.1

2.0

1.1

512KE

512K

512K

512KE

512K

239K

145K

217K

' 133K

162K

526K

384K

368K

512K

368K

both

both

both

both

both

both

both

both

opens only

S150

$99.95

$149.95

$125

$129

30 X 30 ft.

8 X 10 in.

2(8 X 10 in.)-^

8 X 10 in.

8 X 10 in.

ltd. by memory'

4

1 plus browse file

9

ltd. by memory

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

10

2

•

•

•

•

both

both

both

patterns movable only,

others both

•

•

•

•

•

yes, not when resizing

objects only

•

•

•

marquee

•

•

•

10

2 plus page view

5

5

5

•

•

•

•

all but reduced view

adjustable

•

adjustable

adjustable

adjustable

both

both

rulers only

readouts only

rulers only

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

by 90° increments only

•

•

•

•

300 dpi

•

300 dpi

•

1

1

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

preselections

•

•

•

by line weight

4

9

1

8

j

3 for brushes

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

: i

•

•

both

add only

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

balloons

•

Macworld

155

MacPaint

The purist s paint package. MacPaint includes no
object-oriented capabilities, but this makes it the eas-
iest paint program to learn and use (see Reviews, Mac-
world, August 1988). Overall, MacPaint has the sim-
plest and most elegant design. Besides being the
easiest to learn, MacPaint is the most forgiving of all
paint packages. The program lets you take a “snapshot”
of your drawing and continue w^orking on it. Later,
using a “magic eraser,” you can selectively erase just
those changes made since the snapshot without alter-
ing the rest of the drawing. The program has good
magnification controls, and lets you use all tools in the
50 percent view.

If you are concerned with getting the most value
in one package, however, paint programs that provide
object-oriented drawing capabilities are a better buy. If
you have a laser printer and you really want to show off
its strength in your graphics, then MacPaint is insuffi-
cient. But if you already own an object-oriented pro-
gram and you plan to keep your draw and paint activ-
ities separate, MacPaint may be your best choice.
Beginners should try out both MacPaint and Super-
Paint to see which one they prefer.

Font Style Patterns Tools

Insectsr at 100%

OK 1 [ None 1

Goodies

MacPaint

In MacPaint, current magnification is always conveniently
indicated in the window's title bar. The tool palette has been
moved from its menu position into the lower right corner The
Brush Mirrors dialog box has been selected so that the artist
can paint in kaleidoscopic fashion, each brush stroke mir-
rored in the painting s four quadrants.

DeskPaint

DeskPaint shows just how much desk accessories
have improved. If you want a full-featured paint DA to
complement your work in PageMaker or other pro-
grams, DeskPaint is an excellent choice. Using a DA
may be necessary for interactive work with applica-
tions if you can’t afford enough memory to store mul-
tiple applications in MultiFinder. DeskPaint even pro-
vides multiple magnifications and edits TIFF files.

While Canvas DA is an impressive subset of an ob-
ject-oriented program, DeskPaint is a paint application
in desk accessory format. Choosing between these
desk accessories is similar to choosing between Can-
vas and a paint-only program. Keep in mind, however,
that you could complement another graphics pro-
gram’s emphasis on object-oriented or bitmapped
graphics with the alternate strengths of one of
those DAs.

A new version is planned for September release.
DeskPaint 2.0 will read most graphics formats, add air-
brush, charcoal, and smoothing tools, and edit images
in any magnification. Zedcor has also announced that
DeskPaint 2.0 will be able to trace bitmaps, turning
them into polygons that can be edited in a second
desk accessory called DeskDraw. DeskDraw will be
included in the $129.95 package and will be roughly
comparable to early versions of MacDraw. As other
paint programs begin to climb in price, DeskPaint 2.0
may come to represent the best buy among low-end
paint programs that also offer object-oriented
capabilities.

^ ^ File Edit DeskPaint

DeskPaint

Because it is a desk accessory and takes up relatively little
space, DeskPaint can be used within other applicatiom in
floppy-based Macintoshes that do not have memory to
spare. In this case a graphic is being added to the More
outlining program.

156 September 1988

SuperPaint

For the past year or so SuperPaint has been the
market leader, and for good reason. SuperPaint contin-
ues to represent the best tradeoff between features
and ease of use for applications that focus on painting.
It is also the best choice for people who value the flexi-
bility of a paint program but stil l want to take advan-
tage of object-oriented graphics. But SuperPaint does
not let you edit in a 50 percent view and currently does
not permit the mixing of fonts, styles, and sizes in text
windows. At this writing, the program still has an an-
noying incompatibility with Mac IIs set in color mode.
Dots appear across the top of the screen until you re-
set the monitor choice to two levels of black-and-white
in the control panel.

A new version, SuperPaint 2.0, has been an-
nounced and should be available by the time you read
this for just under $200. Announced features include
color preview on a Mac II (you can’t work in color but
you can see colors assigned to objects), customizable
palettes, and TIFF support. Page size will be restricted
only by memory, and 300-dpi editing windows will be
up to a page in size depending on available memory.
The update will also correct current text limitations by
letting users mix fonts, styles, and sizes.

Canvas

Canvas is an object-oriented program first and a
paint program second. To create and edit bitmaps in
Canvas, you must first draw an object and then specify
it as a bitmapped region. This is fine for adding details
to objects, but it’s awkward if you chiefly want a paint
program.

In terms of overall capabilities. Canvas is probably
the most powerful program I looked at. It combines a
full set of drawing, painting, and text features in a sin-
gle program. Canvas lets you create extremely large
drawings, spanning an area 9 feet by 9 feet, and you
can edit at the microscopic resolution of 2540 dpi. The
program lets you work with bezier curves and import
TIFF files (as well as most other graphics file formats).
Version 2.0 is planned for release by the time this arti-
cle appears, and will add multiple layers, gray-scale
editing, and a number of other refinements. Version
2.0 will also increase in price from just under $200 to
nearly $300, making it the most expensive program of
those surveyed. Currently, Canvas includes the ver-
satile Canvas DA, which provides most of the stand-
alone program’s features. The DA will probably no
longer be included after the arrival of Canvas 2.0 and
will be sold separately instead.

Canvas is the best choice if you want a chiefly
object-oriented program but you also want to create
and edit bitmapped details. But Canvas is not for
everyone. Due to its object-oriented nature and the
sheer number of its features, it lacks the seamless
nature of a dedicated paint program.

SuperPaint

SuperPaint uses the icon at the top of the tool palette to indi-
cate whether the paint or draw layer is currently selected.
When the paintbrush is foremost, the paint layer is active.
When the compass is in front, the draw layer is active. Super-
Paint opens a separate window and file for each section of the
drawing that is edited at 300 dots per inch.

^ File Edit Style Font Object Layout Effects Macro

Canvas

To create a paint region in Canvas, you must first draw an ob-
ject, such as a rectangle, and then specify it as a bitmapped re-
gion in the Object Specifications dialog box. Currently, Can-
vas also includes a capable desk accessory called Canvas DA
(lower right.)

Macworld 157

Draw It Again, Sam

Like Canvas, Draw It Again, Sam is chiefly an
object-oriented graphics program. With version 2.01
the program introduced paint features, letting users
specify objects as bitmaps. Sam simplifies working
with bitmapped objects somewhat by giving you two
options. You can create multiple bitmapped objects in
succession so that you don’t have to specify individual
objects as bitmaps, or you can create a single bit-
mapped region that expands to encompass any draw-
ing you do. Combined with the ability to create and
centrally control ten layers, Sam has the best concep-
tual approach to working with bitmapped objects
of all the programs that are, for the most part,
object-oriented.

Unfortunately, the program is unpolished. Some-
times the program left screen artifacts after changing
selections. Dragging the lasso beyond the window’s
edge regularly left artifacts on the scroll bars. The
screen response of Sam’s paint tools was the slowest
by far of the programs I examined. And Sam doesn’t
include alignment commands, a major oversight for an
object-oriented graphics program. Furthermore, you
can’t mix fonts, styles, and sizes in a text block.

Because both Sam and Canvas are built around
their draw capabilities, they merit direct comparison.
With the exception of layers and the way bitmapped
objects are created. Canvas has superior features and
is the better finished of the two. Aba showed me a beta
version of an upcoming release 2.1 that corrected
some of the bugs I saw in version 2.03, so you may want
to reconsider Sam when the new version comes out.

□

m

4 rile Edit Library Objects Options Tent Frame Fill UMndouis

Draw It Again, Sam

This drawing was created with the help of Draw It Again, Sam’s
library feature. A library^ containing tolerance symbols, which
can he selected and used in the drawing, appears at the bot~
tom of the screen.

^ Ife File Edit lUindom Layout Feature Font Style Size

Tutorial 2

GraphicWorks

The three rectangles in the drawing can he superimposed to
create a single graphic. In the foreground a dialogue balloon
has been created and reshaped. Note all the balloon shapes on
the dialogue-balloon tool palette (far right).

GraphicWorks

GraphicWorks is best suited to applications that
require frequent overlaying of bitmaps and the manip-
ulation of panels. This program’s original name, Com-
icWorks, was more appropriate. GraphicWorks has one
of the most powerful sets of paint features, including a
highly controllable airbrush tool, nine transfer modes,
multiple magnifications, and the ability to import TIFF
files. The program also has excellent text-editing capa-
bilities due to text-oriented objects called dialog
balloons.

You create separate objects for normal and high-
resolution bitmaps, text, and shapes. The program has
a multitude of tool palettes for working with the differ-
ent object types. Unfortunately, working with so many
objects, many of vA^hich are overlaid, makes Graphic-
Works too cumbersome for most applications. The
program trips over itself. For this reason, I can’t rec-
ommend it for most users. However, if you want to
create comic strips or otherwise manipulate complex
sequences of text and bitmaps, GraphicWorks is an
excellent choice.

158 September 1988

ComlcStrip Factory

Like GraphicWorks, ComicStrip Factory is de-
signed for working with comic strips. However, the
program is intended more as a production tool than as
a painting tool. The idea is to create artwork in a stand-
alone paint program and assemble it via a library win-
dow. A utility called PartMaker transforms individual
shapes from files saved in MacPaint format so that you
can select them automatically by clicking on them.
Thus you avoid the painstaking process of carefully en-
circing each shape with the lasso. Once shapes are
brought into an actual comic strip, you can edit them
only in an 8-times magnification.

On the whole, ComicStrip Factory is designed for
people who are not artists but who want to learn how
to make their own comic strips. The program defi-
nitely has a countercultural flavor, which shows up in
the documentation and the templates. Comic-strip en-
thusiasts and artists may appreciate the tone and orien-
tation of this product, but business users won’t. While
GraphicWorks certainly has stronger drawing features,
ComicStrip Factory is inexpensive enough that comic-
strip enthusiasts who want to try their hand at creating
comics should look into this program. But ComicStrip
Factory is not suited for most graphics applications.

File Edit Panel

LUindoius

Prop Room

Comic Strip Factory

The comic strip on the left came configured with panels. Click-
ing on the small images in the window on the right automat-
ically selects just the image without any surroundings. Once
the image is selected, you can copy and paste it into the
comic strip.

FullPaint

FullPaint is sorely in need of an update. When it
was first introduced, it corrected most of the major de-
ficiencies of the original MacPaint, but now it is show-
ing its age. FullPaint has no object-oriented capabil-
ities, and its windows cannot grow larger than the
Plus’s or the SE’s screen. In its current form, FullPaint
is probably not the best paint program for your needs.
Ashton-Tate acquired FullPaint along with FullWrite
Professional early this year, but a spokesperson states
that the company is not upgrading the product.

FullPaint used to serve as an option for users who
weren’t satisfied with MacPaint but appreciated the
classic’s simplicity. Well, the classic is back and it’s bet-
ter. With a few minor exceptions, MacPaint is a much
better choice for beginners and users who prefer sim-
plicity in paint software.

Drawing Brushes

So which program should you choose? If you
draw more than you paint, look at Canvas. On the off
chance that you draw comic strips, design sets, or oth-
erwise layer text and bitmaps, you should examine
GraphicWorks and ComicStrip Factory.

If you paint more than you draw, however, you
have three basic choices: MacPaint, DeskPaint, and
SuperPaint. If you don’t care about object-oriented
graphics and you prefer simplicity, MacPaint is your
best bet. If you spend a lot of time working with desk-
top publishing programs and you want a desk acces-
sory to complement your work, then point your brush
at DeskPaint. Overall, however, SuperPaint is the best

Whichever program you
choose, all are eminently
affordable. A feuTdre priced
under $1Q0-

general-purpose paint program available. I’m anxious
to see how well the program integrates the next ver-
sion’s powerful new features into the mix. Even in its
current form, SuperPaint remains the best program for
intensive paint applications.

Whichever program you choose, all of them are
eminently affordable, a few with mail-order and dis-
count retail prices under $100. You can purchase sever-
al of these programs for the price of a single software
ace like PixelPaint and ImageStudio. But that’s a strong
suit of a different color. □

See Where to Buy for contact information.

Macworld 159

160 September 1988

ILLUSTRATIONS W SCOTT B.SLDV( IN

The (D)A Team

Meet the desk accessory dream team —
the 15 most effective troubleshooters and
problem solvers under the Apple menu

by Steven Levy

T

.JL. o the best of my knowledge,

Apple doesn’t include a desk accessories evangelist
among its team of full-time proselyiizers. This is a re-
grettable omission, because a recent sounding of the
Macintosh community has uncovered the scandalous
fact that people are underutilizing desk accessories
(DAs). Don’t they know? Aren’t the\* aware of the value
of using those handy part-time applications available
under the little apple at the left of the menu bar? Don’t
they realize how neat it is that DAs are available from
within any application, that they take up relatively little
space on a hard disk, that they generally cost less than
full-blow'n programs, and that they are often the most
elegant solutions to niggling but frustrating comput-
ing problems?

What's stopping people? Is it that they are intimi-
dated by the prospect of using Font/DA Mover to install
DAs other than the mostly goopy ones that come with
the standard System? Do they think MultiFinder will
solve all their do-two-things-at-the-same-time prob-
lems? (It won’t, buddy) Or is it that hopeless feeling
that comes from waking up one day and realizing that
there are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of desk ac-
cessories available — and you don’t know which ones
would form the perfect complement?

If the latter is the case, breathe easy. Or, as that
charming thespian known to his adoring public as
Mr. T might say, “Listen up, fool — the DA Team is here
to take care o’ business!”

Yes, the DA Team. Fifteen of the sleekest, meanest,
most powerful desk accessories known to humankind.
(Fifteen, by no coincidence, is the number of DAs a

Steven Levy is a contributing editor to Macworld; he has been
a fan of desk accessories since he first solved the Puzzle DA
on the 128K Mac.

Mac system can accommodate.) Mow tough are they?
Well, they won’t crash your System — but they could if
they wanted to.

It wasn’t easy picking the DA Team. I had to poke
around various Mac installations, note which DAs
found their way onto people’s systems, and figure out
which ones they used the most. This information was
supplemented by a formal poll of the savvey crew at
Macworld to see which players they consider the
cream of the crop. All suggestions were taken back to
my personal DA-testing bunker, where I stress-tested
the lot of them. I was pleased to find that during the
last year a bold new generation of desk accessories has
emerged — programs that are often as powerful as
stand-alone applications but that retain all the advan-
tages of DAs.

One caveat: Since everybody’s needs vary, your
own ideal DA set will probably differ somewhat from
the dream team. For suggestions on substitute mem-
bers, check out “Special Teams.” Whatever final mix
you arrive at, b\' studying the dossiers of the DA Team
presented here, you can start thinking about how to
goose your productivity by installing a customized hit
squad of your own under the Apple menu.

Oldies but Goodies

The first few spots on the dream-team roster have
to go to some of the standard desk accessories that are
required for proper Mac maintenance. For example,
no one should be without the Control Panel, which
has evolved from a relatively trivial “crib toy” with
switches, levers, and buttons to a multilayered system
that enables you to set parameters you didn’t know^ ex-
isted. (Can I see a show of hands by all those who have

Maavorld 161

changed the default for the proper interval between
mouse clicks?) The Control Panel is also where you
can control useful utilities called CDEVs (control de-
vices) — screen blankers like Pyro, or function-key
tools like QuicKeys. (Though (ZDEVs are sometimes
lumped into the same general category as DAs, the\^
are beyond the purview of this article. Same with their
cousins, INlTs — software tools that install themselves
upon booting. )

The Alarm Clock that comes with the standard
System has been a theme for endless software varia-
tions. DA artists have devised everything from sleek
analog clock faces to digital readouts that cover the
whole screen — there’s even a Mac Mickey Mouse
clock. For a while an INIT file called J-Clock was the
rage, but it took up space on the menu bar and caused
some ugly conflicts with other programs. All in all,

1 don’t think it s worth the effort to seek out a
better clock.

Another standard DA that you delete at your own
risk is Key Caps. You probably won’t use it much, since
all it does is tell you what happens when you press a
given key or combination of keys. But at those rare
times when you need an umlaut, and you don't feel
like five or ten minutes of mind-numbing trial and er-
ror to find the right combination of keys. Key Caps can
instantly tell you where the umlaut hides. Of course,
if you deal with a lot of fonts, especially weird ones
that have many symbols, you’re probably a Key Caps
junkie already.

( If you find yourself in and out of an AppleTalk
environment or shuttling between a laser printer and
an ImageWriter, you’re stuck with the unexciting but
indispensable Chooser, a DA that popped out of
nowhere one da\' to address a problem that never
seemed to be there before the Chooser existed. Since
this is such a boring DA, however. I’m not counting it
among our dream team.)

Upgrading the Originals

From here on in, things get more interesting.
Three of the more remarkable DAs that came with the
original Mac are still useful but might bear replacing.
First is the Calculator, a clever little representation of
a hand-held electronic calculator that enables you to
perform quick math functions from within a program.
The introduction of arithmetic functions in word pro-
cessors has not diminished the need for the Calculator,
and even people with spreadsheets on screen find
themselves pulling down that DA for quick computa-
tions. If your needs are basic, you can get by quite well
with the one Apple supplies, but more extensive de-
mands are easily met. The next step up is something
like Calculator-F, included in Borland’s SideKick pack-
age ( S99.95). Besides the additional functions, Calcu-
latorH- gives you the equivalent of a tape readout for
viewing what numbers you’ve already punched.

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Calculator Construction Set enables you to build your favor-
ite functions into a dream calculator of your own design. You
can even set it up to be controlled from the keyboard.

Any number of more pow'erful calculators — such
as dCad Calculator (S19.95 shareware), loaded with ar-
cane functions — are to be found on the nets. But the
Cadillac of calculator DAs is Calculator Construction
Set ($89.95), which lets you build your own, with al-
most any function imaginable. Nerd heaven. An added
advantage is having the ability to use the keyboard to
punch the keys of your on-screen dream calculator.

While only some people will w'ant to upgrade
from Calculator, everyone can improve on Apple’s
zero-frills Notepad. I can’t imagine using the Mac w ith-
out a quick and easy way to create or capture text, edit
it, and save it as a file — no matter what program you’re
using. To do this properly, you should upgrade to one
of two turbo-notepads: either the public domain Mini-
Writer, which has an avid following due to its speed,
or my choice, the more substantial MockWrite ( S35).
(Notepad -f, included in SideKick, is a virtual clone
of MockWrite.)

Yet another quantum improvement results from
upgrading the Scrapbook desk accessory. You can turn
a useful yet minimalistic tool into a full-featured lux-
ury item with SmartScrap ($69.95, includes The Clip-
per). Once this DA is installed, your single scrapbook
becomes a library of scrapbooks, with any picture eas-
ily available via a visual table of contents. \bu can actu-
ally brow^se through miniatures of your graphics. And
unlike the original DA, SmartScrap can store a full
page of graphics, and it lets you select only a portion
of the picture to paste into your document. Charac-
teristic of second-generation DAs, SmartScrap extends
power but doesn’t fetter you with all the baggage of a
full-blown application.

162 September 1988

Hard Disks Made Easy

Hard disk owners need a DA to help them locate
files buried in a folder within a folder — documents
that time forgot, or at least forgot to name. Though
many of us have kept it by force of habit, Apple s simple
Find File is too simple; it finds, gives you the informa-
tion, and takes a hike. Replace it with something more
substantial. One of the best new DAs is DiskTop
($ 49 . 95 , includes Laser Status), which not only locates
files in short order but lets you perform all sorts of
hard disk-management tasks, such as moving and re-
naming files and changing their formats, from within
an application.

Many of DiskTop’s functions, of course, are less
valuable now that you can use MultiFinder to switch
out of an application and into the Finder to perform
file-management tasks. But not all of us use Multi-

What We Use at
Macworld

The Macworld editorial staff
and contributors submitted to
poh’graph tests and disclosed
the contents of their System
files. Not surprisingly, many of
the DAs we use are aids to the
work we do putting out a maga-
zine. Aside from the Apple DAs
included in off-the-shelf Sys-
tems, the most popular desk ac-
cessory among our editors is
Acta — it s on eight S\\stems and
was cited four times as being
among the fararite DAs. Run-
ner-up was Word Finder, a capa-
ble thesaurus (seven Systems,
three favorites). SmartScrap,
DeskFaint, QuickDex, DiskTop,
Suitcase, and Calculator + all
rated high. MiniWYiter beat out
MockWrite as the Notepad sub-
stitute of choice. Also men-
tioned repeatedly was Word-
Count, a public domain DA that
counts words in text files. The
DA with the highest satisfac-
tion-rating was QuickDex. Of
those who use it, all said it was
one of the most useful.

Finder, and on balance I think the extra chores Disk-
Top performs, and the ease with which it performs
them, make it a valuable addition to the menu. The
only thing it doesn’t do that it should is launch files
once it finds them. A DA that does this is HFS Locator
Plus, which isn’t as comprehensive as DiskTop but is a
worthy alternative.

Searching/or files is one thing, but what about
searching through files? The DA Gofer ($79.95) can
search through thousands of pages of documents for a
single phrase. Gofer is fast — it searched through a 15-
file, 500-page manuscript of mine in about ten seconds
— and its search functions are extensive. You can, for
example, search using Boolean and wild-card vari-
ables. Gofer can search your entire hard disk from the
desktop or from within a word processor, terminal
program, or anything else.

Applications Under the Apple

The second generation of DAs often gives you
the powder of a full application, squeezed down and
streamlined so you can use it anytime. Some of them
are so useful that they’re worth having, despite the
accessibility of big-brother applications under
MultiFinder.

If you w^ant to create graphics without dealing
with a stand-alone paint program, for example, you’ll
be amazed at how effective DeskPaint ($129 95) is —
almost as powerful as the new^ MacPaint. With unique
features like those that lighten or darken an image,
DeskPaint is especially valuable for use with a page-
layout program. Likewise, instead of booting up More,
or using a clunky outlining function in a word proces-
sor, you can more than meet minor outlining needs

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or as shown here, any case where a word appears twice within
a few lines. The program is convenient and fast.

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special Teams

Networking/Graphics

Gary Cosimini is in charge of
the Macintosh network at the
New York Times, as well as a
connoisseur of DAs. He calls
the Laser Status utility, which
keeps him aware of the current
printing situation, “very very
useful” Timbuktu ($99.95
and up, depending on size of
network), a DA that enables Co-
simini to take over another
computer on the net, is a valu-
able aid when one network
node or another gets stuck.

For moving graphics around,
Cosimini uses Artisio, a public
domain utility (contribution re-
quested), to copy bitmaps into
the Clipboard and save them as
PICT files.

Business

Tony Oppenheim is a business
consultant in New York who
uses a Macintosh. A lot of his
work involves developing cus-
tom templates in 4th Dimen-
sion. He thinks AffiniFile
($79.95), a tiny DA database
that can store and search
through text and graphics, is a
boon. He also uses SmartScrap
(see main article) to store 4-D
layouts and procedures. For
text editing, he has been ex-
perimenting with the feature-

laden Joliwrite ($20), a French
import. He is impressed with
the spreadsheet-in-a-DA Bi-
Plane ($40), but since his Mac is
loaded with memory, he winds
up using Excel under Multi-
Finder instead.

Page Layout

Randy Tibbott is a desktop pub-
lishing consultant, graphic art-
ist, and PageMaker wizard. The
DA he swears by is SmartScrap,
included in our DA dream
team, which he uses not only
for graphics but also to save
kerned text, particularly head-
lines. He manages an astro-
nomical number of fonts with

Font/DA Juggler ($59.95), and
composes notes with the Note-
pads from the SideKick assort-
ment of DAs ($99.95). When he
needs screen shots, “especially
when it won’t work from the
keyboard,” he uses Camera, a
freeware DA that specifically
addresses that function.

Programming

Adam Wildavsky programs
Macs for Tradenet in New York.
He recommends several DAs to
make the programmer s job
easier. His favorite seems to be
the Browser (distributed free
to members of Apple Program-
mer’s and Developer’s Associa-
tion): “It lets you look at source
code more easily.” He uses
Disktools II ($49.95, part of
Disktools Plus) to ascertain the
creator and file type of a given
file. He also suggests The Pro-
grammer’s Online Companion
($34.95), an online abridge-
ment of Inside Macintosh, the
programmer’s bible; System Er-
rors DA, a public domain quick
guide to bomb reports; the
multifunction dCad Calculator
($19.95 shareware); and Heap-
Show ($79), which gives de-
tailed information on a pro-
gram’s innards.

164 September 1988

with a DA like Acta ($79), which creates nifty outlines
that you can refer to any time. This is especially handy
when you use outlines for “to do” lists or as small-scale
project organizers.

The Organization DA

In fact, DAs seldom shine as much as when they
help organize your life. Despite intricate super-Filofax-
type programs like Focal Point, the promise of Hyper-
Card as a private-secretary substitute is as yet un-
fulfilled — that strategy requires too much memory
and is too slow to provide details on command. A
much better alternative is a combination of DAs, cen-
tered around the acme of the field, a marvel called
QuickDex ($49.95). This not only fulfills the function
of a Rolodex — storing an unlimited number of names,
numbers, and addresses — but it acts as a sturdy little
mailing-list database, with search functions and print-
ing capabilities. Its speed is breathtaking, and it dials
phone numbers for you. Once you install it, you can’t
live without it.

You can get further organized with a package of
two DAs called Smart Alarms and Appointment Diary
($ 49.95 for the pair). The former allows you to pro-
gram messages to yourself; at the times you specify,
the Mac reminds you to call your broker, go to the den-
tist, or prepare your expense report. The latter is a
detailed appointment book that keeps track of your
schedule. When the two DAs are used in tandem, you
can program reminders far in advance (three days be-
fore your mother’s birthday, the Mac can remind you
to send her a card — not only this year but in 1989).

Moving Around

Another DA for all seasons is Tempo II ($149.95).
This macro-making utility allows you to create all sorts
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A calendar in Appointment Diary. The combination of this DA
with Smart Alarms, which puts messages on your screen at
preset times, is almost as good as having an administrative
assistant.

new version makes the most of MultiFinder to let you
automate tasks using several applications. For instance,
you can set things up so you can call up QuickDex, or
any other DA, with a keyboard command instead of a
mouse operation. Though the latest version of Apple’s
System software supposedly includes a macro tool, it is
doubtful that this new release (not seen at press time)
will have features comparable to Tempo II.

The final spot on our menu goes to Suitcase
($59), a desk accessory that cleverly allows you to raise
the 15-DA ceiling and stuff your System with dozens
more. Suitcase is also invaluable to those who use a lot
of fonts, since it can hold font families in separate files,
to be called up as needed. (See the sidebar “Avoiding
Font Menu Overload” in the April 19SS Macworld
article “Fit to Print” for tips on font management
using Suitcase.)

With Suitcase, you don’t have to make the difficult
decision about which DA to cut every time you come
across a new one. You’ll have room for indispensable
little DAs like Kiwi Envelope ($8), which does nothing
but allow you to print envelopes easily (unlike any
word processor Imown to humankind). Or HyperDA
($69), which allows HyperCard users to browse
through stacks without opening the memory-gobbling
application itself

So there’s no need to limit your DA menu. The
only thing holding you back from plumbing the pro-
ductive world of desk accessories is your imagination,
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See Where to Buy for contact information.

Macw'orld 165

Who Keeps
the Books?

Selecting an accounting package
that fits your business

F

inding a good ac-
counting program is really a matter of find-
ing one that accommodates the scope of
your business and fits your current ac-
counting procedures. Although most Mac-
intosh accounting packages offer the basic
functions of general ledger and accounts
payable and receivable, they address differ-
ent accounting requirements and prefer-
ences. It is difficult, if not impossible, to
compare a feature-laden multiuser pro-
gram like Multi-User Desktop Accounting
to a one-write program like Plains & Sim-
ple OneWrite. So w'eVe divided the accom-
panying tables into three product catego-
ries to help you compare features among
representative groups of programs.

^Modular A traditional approach to
accounting that posts transactions peri-
odically by batches; each ledger is a sepa-
rate module.

^All-in-one An ongoing entry system
that combines several ledgers in one inte-
grated program, including at least general
ledger, accounts payable, and accounts
receivable.

Alan 1. Slay is a freelance writer based in St.
Louis, he specializes in financial and accounting
software.

^Special function Specialized pro-
grams that automate payroll, point-of-sale,
or inventory records.

Although omitted from this overview;
personal financial and template programs
are sometimes adequate for small busi-
nesses whose accounting requirements
can be handled within that format.

Personal finance programs, such as
Dollars and Sense, Macmoney, and Manag-
ing Your Money, focus on personal finan-
cial planning and investment rather than
business accounting. Check-writing pro-
grams such as Intuits Quicken can be used
by businesses that don’t w^ant to perform
any kind of bookkeeping function but w'ant
to automate check writing and maintain
records that can be handed over to a book-
keeper or an accountant.

There are numerous template pro-
grams, and they vary considerably in qual-
ity. Most templates developed for spread-
sheet programs (such as Microsoft Excel )
or databases (such as Omnis) are not com-
parable to full-featured accounting pro-
grams and usually require the additional
purchase of the underlying software. Al-
though technically Multi-User Desktop Ac-
counting and Payroll Bridge are templates,
we’ve included them because the\’ ha\e a
fully developed set of modules, they come
w ith run-time versions of Omnis 3 Plus,

by Alan L, Slay

and they’re sold nationally through regular
di.stribution channels.

The accounting records you keep for
your business contain information critical
to you, your accountant, and .state and fed-
eral agencies. I highly recommend that you
involve your accountant or bookkeeper
throughout the process of selecting a suit-
able program. After assessing your ac-
counting needs, evaluate the features listed
on the three accompanying tables: General
Accounting, Payroll, and Inventory, 'fhe
General Accounting table covers aspects of
accounting, including general ledger, ac-
counts payable, and accounts receivable,
supported by most programs. The Payroll
table and Inventory table cover only pro-
grams that provide the.se more specialized
capabilities.

Modular Accounting Programs

The first category on the tables covers
nine modular programs. A modular prod-
uct contains separate programs for each
ledger or specific application, such as ac-
counts receivable ( A/R) or order entry, 'fhe
separate modules supply data to a central

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Mao;\'orld 167

general ledger (G/L) through batch posting.

Modular programs are geared to the
stand-alone bookkeeping operation. Near-
ly all the programs in this category' empha-
size traditional accounting procedures. For
example, most programs provide extensive
features for hard-copy audit trails. As the
name suggests, you can buy individual
modules as the need arises. The programs
in this category occupy at least one HOOK
disk. In most cases you will need a 20-
megabyte hard disk, preferably 40MB or
more, to run multiple modules.

The most versatile modular program
listed is Microfinancial Corporation s Flex-
ware, a multiuser accounting package that
operates on the Mac, the IBM PC, and VAX

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CheckMark MuUiLedger
CbeckiMark l^ayroirs entry screen lets you enter
hours for all employees on a siti^le screen. This
convenient feature can save you the trouble of
working through individual employee scree f is —
a useful feature for any business which has vary-
ing hours each pay period.

minicomputers. Flexware is expensiv'e
compared to other Mac accounting pro-
grams, but it rivals minicomputer pro-
grams costing a good deal more. One Flex-
ware user has 17 Macs set up on a network
performing point-of-sale (POS) processing,
iiwoicing, job costing for bids, inventory
management, scheduling, and several
other business applications.

Another multiuser program is Circo
Business Solutions Multiuser Desktop Ac-
counting (MDA). MDAs (werall appearance
and operation will be familiar to Omnis 3
Plus users, and it includes a run-time ver-
sion of that database manager. MDA does
not include a pav roll package, but v'ou can
purchase a separate payroll processor, Pav-

roll Bridge, that feeds data into its G/L. Pay-
roll Bridge, which also runs on Omnis, is
expensiv'e, however, when v'ou consider
the performance and prices of its pav roll
competitors.

Some modular programs — Lake Ave-
nue Software s The Assistant Controller,
Small Busine.ss Technology’s (SBT s) Data-
base Accounting Library, and Great Plains
Software s Great Plains Accounting Se-
ries — originate from MS-DOS programs.
The Assistant Controller and the SBT Data-
base Accounting Librarv’ run on McMax, a
Macintosh database management program
that is compatible with Ashton-Tate’s dBase
software running on MS-DOS computers.
Great Plains has done the best job of adap-
ting itself to the Mac, but don't expect to
wear out your mouse using it. These pro-
grams benefit from the experience their
manufacturers gained in the PC market,
and include many improvements based on
user recommendations. They also offer
more additional specialized modules than
the other modular programs (see ‘Addi-
tional Modules”).

Two modular programs that make
good use of the Macs interface are Lay-
ered's Insight and Chang Labs Rags to
Riches. Insight works in ledger-card for-
mats. Information is immediately accessi-
ble, .so you do not have to create a report
first in order to review and edit data. The
program also includes iriterpretation
.screens, which tell you what the numbers
in your company books mean. For exam-
ple, one explains current ratio. The G/I.,
A/P, and A/R modules are fast and smoothly
integrated. Lav'ered offers a separate mod-
ule for exporting data, and plans to release
an inventory module soon.

Rags to Riches takes a conventional
approach to bookkeeping while offering
one of the Mac’s most imaginative inter-
faces. The user clicks into and out of the
various detail, ledger, and summarv'
.screens. Instead of posting directly to the
G/L, the program prov ides a separate
merge file that is transferred to the G/L at a
later time — a u.seful feature if the ledger
and G/I. are on .separate machines. In addi-
tion to the basic modules. Rags to Riches
offers an Inventory module and a I^rofes-
sional Billing module for consultants and
.service busine.sses.

All-in-One

All-in-one programs integrate G/L,
A/R, and A/P, and in some cases pav roll and
inventory. Most all-in-one programs differ
from modular programs in the wav' they re-

quire you to enter and retrieve data. In-
stead of closing transactions and posting
them by batch, the program automatically
posts each transaction or adjustment as
soon as the entry screen is closed. This in-
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168 September 1988

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minuie reporis available.

All-in-one programs are less expen-
sive ihan separaie modules, and are ade-
quaie for the needs of many small busi-
nesses. These programs are best suited to

Great Plains Accounting Series

Great Plains Software has clone one of the best
jobs of translating MS-DOS programs into the
Mac etwironment. The publisher's experience in
the MS-DOS world is evident in the range and
depth of its applications.

the bookkeeper or owner/manager/book-
keeper who doesn’t want to bother with
procedures like proofing batches in hard
cop\' before posting.

All-in-one programs vary in sophis-
tication and design. For example, Check-
Mark Software’s CheckMark MultiLedger is
included in the Payroll table because it has
one of the best payroll modules for feeding
detailed data into the G/L. But the design of
the G/L, A/P, and A/R modules fits the all-
in-one definition.

CheckMark Payroll stores only the
most basic information on each employee
and provides basic payroll reports. How-
ever, anyone who can work across and
down the self-explanatory menus can do a
payroll quickly ^ind easily with little refer-
ence to the documentation. Setting up
more complicated tables, such as tax tables,
is more difficult. For businesses with high
employee turnover and varying work
hours each pay period, the use of a single
entry screen to record all employee hours
is a plus. This feature makes data entry
much faster than entering hours in individ-
ual employee records.

Monogram’s Business Sense and Bed-
ford Software’s Simply Accounting use
desktop icons to represent the various led-
gers and journals. To make an A/P entry, for
example, you click on the A/P or Purchases

icon and work within that journal; the
menus provide the various activity options.
When you return to the desktop, the pro-
gram automatically posts the entries
to the G/L.

Simply Accounting comes with federal
and state payroll tax tables, which you pur-
chase from Bedford Software in an annual
update. Business Sense’s payroll tax tables
are entered by the user, although Mono-
gram will sell you a complete set of up-
dated federal tables. (My advice is to get
them and save a lot of detailed work.)
Monogram does not, however, offer state
tax tables.

Softsync’s Accountant, Inc., Computer
Associates’ BPI Entry Series, Migent’s In-
House Accountant, and Layered’s Insight
OneWrite operate in batch rather than on-
line mode, but vary in degree of sophis-
tication. Accountant, Inc., and BPI would
likely fit a bookkeeper’s accounting re-
quirements, while Insight OneWrite and
In-House Accountant would better accom-
modate the owner/manager who is keep-
ing records that will eventually be pro-
cessed by a bookkeeper or an accounting
service.

Accountant, Inc., uses a form-struc-
tured approach to data entry. You select
your general function (journal entries, for
example) from the menu bar, and then en-

Best Impressions

After spending countle.ss hours
looking at all the accounting
programs covered in this arti-
cle, I developed some personal
favorites. Although this over-
view doesn’t constitute a com-
parative review, it's difficult not
to form some opinions in the
process. Keep in mind that my
observations are based on ini-
tial exposure to the products,
rather than exhaustive testing.

My favorite all-around ac-
counting program is Check-
Mark Software’s MultiLedger/
Payroll set. It was the simplest
and most logical program I ex-
amined that provided a rea-

sonably full set of accounting
capabilities. Its price/perfor-
mance ratio represents an ex-
cellent value.

If I were a full-time book-
keeper/acountant, I would in-
vest in the Insight Accounting
Series. Although the series will
not begin to realize its full po-
tential for a couple of years. Lay-
ered has committed itself to a
high-quality product that
makes excellent use of the
Mac’s interface.

In terms of documentation,
packaging, support material,
and program appearance, I was
most impressed with the Great

Plains Accounting Series. All
the materials and screen dis-
plays are attractive and pol-
ished — first-class in every way.

In range of application offer-
ings, I must congratulate SBT
Corporation. My personal pref-
erences tend away from pro-
grams based on dBase, be-
cause of inherent speed limits
in their present design. But
SBT s many years of experience
working with a wide range of
small businesses is evident in
the variety of specialized appli-
cations the company offers.

.Macworld 169

General

Accounting

Modular Programs

All-in-one Programs

iS

The Assistant Checkmark Flexware
Controller MultiLedger
Accounting
Series

Great Plains Insight

Accounting Accounting
Series Series

Multiuser

Desktop

Accounting

Rags to
Riches
Accounting
Series

Vendor

Lake Avenue

CheckMark

Microfinancial

Great Plains

Layered

Circo Business

Chang Labs

Software

Software

Corporation

Software

Solutions

Version

5.1

1.03(P/R-2.0)

6.0

4.2

2.1

2.01 demon-

3.1

.st rat ion disk

Package price (includes)

n/a

$395(G/L,A/R,

n/a j

n/a

n/a

$1795 fori

S499.95for

A/P, inventory)

u.ser (G/L, A/R,

3*pack (G/L,

i

A/P, inventory

A/R, A/P)

P/O entry, POS,

sales)

.Vlultiu.ser price

n/a

n/a

Module- $795

Network Man-

A/R,A/P-$895

$2595-53595

$499.95 for

ager-$795

each

3-pack

Network(s) supported

TOPS.

TOPS,

TOPS,

TOPS, Apple-

AppleShare

AppleShare,

AppleShare

AppleShare

Share, DEC-

j

1

Macserver

Serve, 3Com

Maximum concurrent users

99

unlimited

16

32

1 per module

Minimum memory required

512K

512K

1MB

512K

1MB

512K

512K

Cash, accrual, fund

c,a

c,a

c,a

c,a, f

c,a

a

c,a

One-write, double entry

double

double

double

double

double

double

double

Sample data included

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

Moves data between ledgers

•

•

•

•

•

•

merge file

Imports data

•

1 •

Exports data

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

Password protection

1 •

•

•

•

•

1 ^

•

Maximum depts./profit centers
Free telephone support

i 999

30 days

9

unlimited

99

999/36
30 days

999/256
30 days

33

99

90 days

1

Toll-free support number

•

•

•

Help screens

•

•

•

•

(

1

1

Budgeting capability

•

•

•

1 •

•

•

i

GENERAL LEDGER

j

i

Module price — separate

$595

included

$795

$795

$595

included

S199.95

Maximum entry amount

$99,999,999.99

$9,999,999.99

$9,999,999.00

$999,999,999.00

$999,000,000.00

$99,999,999.99

unlimited

Maximum transactions

limited*

limited***

limited*

limited*

limited*

limited*

limited**

Maximum bank accounts

999

unlimited

in A/P module

limited*

limited*

5 checking

limited*

Maximum lines per transaction

limited*

limited***

999

limited*

limited*

limited**

1 debit, credit

Chart of accounts

sample set provided

•

•

•

•

, 3

1 •

maximum accounts

80,000

limited***

99,999

limited*

limited*

limited*

limited*

maximum digits

8

5

5

11

11

limited*

14

alphanumeric

numeric

numeric

alphanumeric

alphanumeric

numeric

alphanumeric

alphanumeric

1

Processing

batch

batch, online

batch, online

batch

batch

batch

batch, online

Automatic reversals

•

•

•

•

Prints checks direct from G/L

•

•

Flexible fiscal periods

•

•

•

•

!

•

Enter future trans. (curr. yr.)

•

1 period

•

+ next year

•

•

•

Enter prior-period transaction

•

•

•

•

only if open

•

1

Recurring/automatic entries

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

Reconciled checking accounts on screen

i •

1 in A /P module

•

in A/P module

•

i

* Limited by disk space. ** Limited by memory.

170 September 1988

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Accounting Accounting Inc. Basics Accounting

Library Professional

Accounting

BPI Entry
Series
Accounting
Computer

Business In-House Insight

Sense Accountant, OneWrite

Inc.

Plains &
Simple
OneWrite

Small Business

WOSData

Softsync

Peachtree

Bedford

Associates Int’l.

Monogram

Migent Inc.

Layered

Great Plains

Technology

Systems

Software

Software

Software

6.10,6.15

2.25

2.1

2.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.05

1.0

1.02

n/a

$5995 (G/1.,

$299.95 (G/L,

$199 (G/L, A/R

$349 (G/L, A/R,

$89 (G/L, A/R,

$495 (G/L, A/R,

$199 (G/L. A/R,

$299 (G/L, A/R,

$395 (G/L. A/R,

A/R,A/P,P/R)

A/R, A/P, inven

A/P invoice)

A/P, P/R, Inven-

A/P, P/R)

A/P, P/R job

A/P, inventory

cash disburse-

A/P)

lory)

tor\'/jobcost)

cost)

limited PR)

ment)

n/a

$5995

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Novell, TOPS,

AppleTalk, Cor-

vus, Omninet

45

512K

512K

Plus

512KE

1MB

512K

512K

7512K

512K

512K

a

f

c,a

c,a

a

c,a

c,a

c, a,f

c

c,a,f

double

double

double

double

double

double

double

double

one-write

one-write

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•

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999

limited*

1

10

1000

10

99

99

unlimited

30 days

60 days

45 days

unlimited

30 days

30 days

•

extra cost

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

i

clLedger

$395

$1695

n/a

included

included

included

included

included

included

included

$99,999,999.99

$99,999,999.99

$99,999,999.99

$999,999.99

$9,999,999.99

$9,999,999.99

$999,999,999

$99,999,999.99

$999,999

$9,999,999

16 million/FD

limited*

limited**

4500

limited*

limited*

limited*

unlimited

limited*

limited*

in dPayjibles

limited*

limited**

3

limited*

1

5

200

1

limited*

99,999

999

limited**

21

255

12

limited*

50

100

limited*

j

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

99999

limited*

limited**

245

1000

8000

2000

limited**

58

limited*

8

29

5

4

4

4

8

4

6

6

alphanumeric

alphanumeric

alphanumeric

numeric

numeric

numeric

numeric

alphanumeric

numeric

numeric

batch

online

batch

online

online

batch

online

online

batch

online

•

•

•

by menu choice

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

only if open

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

Macworld 171

General

Accounting

Modular Programs

a m

The Assistant Checkmark Flexware Great Plains Insight
Controller MultiLedger
Accounting
Series

All-in-one Programs

Duma

Multiuser

Rags to

Accounting Accounting Desktop Riches
Series Series Accounting Accounting

Series

Reports

screen, disk, graphs

s,d

s,d,g

s,d

s,d

S,cl,g

s,d

s,d

trial bal., bal. sheet, inc. statement

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

journal transactions for period

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

journal tninsactions — YTD

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

forecasts

•

•

•

ratios and data interpretation

extra cost

•

•

custom reports

extra cost

•

•

•

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE

Module price — separate

S595

included

$795

$795

$595

included

$199.95

Maximum vendors

limited*

limited***

limited*

limited*

limited*

limited*

limited*

Maximum entry amount

$99,999,999.99

$99,999,999.99

$999,999.00

$9,999,999.99

$999,000,000.00

limited*

limited**

Maximum transactions

limited*

limited***

limited*

limited*

limited*

limited*

limited*

Maximum lines per transaction

limited*

unlimited

999

102/invoice

15

limited**

limited*

Enters prior-dated invoices

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

Automatic recurring transactions

•

•

•

•

•

•

Tracks by due dates

•

•

•

•

•

•

Stores transactions by

invoice number

•

•

•

•

•

•

assigned document number

•

•

•

•

•

•

date

•

•

•

•

•

•

Allows onetime vendors

•

•

•

•

•

•

Carries over unpaid entries

period, year

period, year

period

period, year

period, year

period, year

period, year

Batches invoices for payment

•

•

•

•

•

Allows partial payments

•

•

1 •

•

•

•

•

Allows manual checks

•

I •

•

•

•

•

•

Calculates discount

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

Check Printing

Single check for multiple transactions

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

User-defined memo/message on check

•

•

•

•

•

•

Vendor address

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

Reports

1

i 1

i !

i

i

Screen, disk, graphs

s

s,d,g

s,d

s,d

s,d,g

s,d

s,d

Detailed YTD vendor transactions

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

Aged A/P reports

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

Custom reports

•

•

•

Mailing labels

•

•

•

•

* Limited by disk space.
•• Limited by memory.

172 September 1988

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WOSFund

Accountant,

Back to

Simply

Accounting

Accounting

Inc.

Basics

Accounting

Library

Professional

Accounting

s,d

s,d

s.d

s,d

s,d

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

A

•

•

W

•

•

•

partial

dPayables

$1300

included

included

included

$395

limited*

limited*

limited**

300

1000

$999,999,999.99

$999,999,999.99

$99,999,999.99

$999,999.99

$9,999,999.99

16 million

limited*

limited**

1200

limited*

unlimited

999

limited**

15

99

•

•

•

•

• i

1

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

yes + vendor

•

•

i

i •

•

•

•

period, year

period, year

period, year

period, year

period, year

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

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•

•

s,d

s,d

s,d

s,d

s,d

•

•

•

•

• 1

1

•

•

•

•

extra cost

•

•

extra cost

•

•

BPI Entry

Business

In-House

Insight

Plains &

Series

Sense

Accountant,

OneWrite

Simple

Accounting

Computer

Inc.

OneWrite

1

s,d

1

1

s.d.g

s.d.8

s,d

s

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

limited

1

1

included

included

included

Cash disburse-
ment included

included

2000

2000

limited"*

limited*

limited*

$9,999,999.99

$999,999,999.00

$99,999,999.99

$999,999.00

$9,999,999.00

limited*

limited*

unlimited

limited*

limited*

12

unlimited

50

4

limited*

•

•

•

invoices

•

•

•

•

•

1

•

1

•

•

by vendor

•

• i

1 •

•

•

•

period, year

period, year

period, year

period, year

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

; 1

1

•

•

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1

1 s,d,g

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•

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•

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1 •

•

Macworld 173

General

Accounting

ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

Module price — separate
Maximum customers
Maximum entry amount
Maximum transactions
Maximum lines per transaction
Enter prior-dated invoices
Automatic recurring transactions
Tracks by due dates
Automatic invoice numbering
Carries over unpaid entries
Partial payments applied
Calculates sales tax
Calculates finance charges

Customer credit limits
Allows onetime customers
Allows invoice adjustments
Tracks sales by salesperson
Tracks sales commissions
Separate bill to/ship to

Reports

Screen, disk, graphs

Detailed YTD customer transactions

Aged A/R reports

Custom reports

Customer invoices

Customer statements

Mailing labels

Dunning letters

• Limited by disk space.

** Limited by memory.

Modular Programs

All-in-one Programs

II

The Assistant

Checkmark

Flexware

Lii! 1

Great Plains

^ X sP
Insight

Multiuser

Rags to

Controller

MultiLedger

Accounting

Accounting

Desktop

Riches

Accounting

Series

Series

Accounting

Accounting

Series

Series

$595

included

$795

$795

$595

included

$199.95

limited*

limited***

limited*

limited*

limited*

limited*

limited*

$99,999,999.99

$99,999,999.99

$999,999.00

$9,999,999.99

$99,000,000.00

limited*

limited**

limited*

limited***

limited*

limited*

limited*

limited*

limited*

limited*

unlimited

999

102/invoice

15

limited**

limited*

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

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period, year

period, year

period

period, year

period, year

period, year

period, year

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•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

extra cost

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

max 2

rates

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s,d

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s.d,g

s,d

s,d

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m

•

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•

174 September 1988

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Accounting Accounting
Library Small
Business

Accountant,

Inc.

Back to
Basics
Professional
Accounting

Simply

Accounting

BPI Entry
Series
Accounting
Computer

Business

Sense

In-House

Accountant,

Inc.

Insight

OneWrite

Plains &
Simple
OneWrite

dinvoice/

dStatements

S395

$1000

included

included

included

included

included

included

included

included

16 million

limited*

limited**

400

1000

2000

2000

limited**

limited*

limited*

$99,999,999,999

$999,999,999.99

$99,999,999.99

$999,999.99

$9,999,999.99

$9,999,999.99

$999,999,999

$99,999,999.99

$999,999.00

$9,999,999.00

limited*

$999,999,999.99

limited**

2000

limited*

limited*

limited*

unlimited

limited*

limited*

unlimited

999

limited**

10

99

12

unlimited

50

6

limited*

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

•

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•

•

•

•

•

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period, year

period, year

period, year

period, year

period, year

period, year

period, year

period, year

period, year

period, year

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statement

message

message

Macworld

175

Payroll

Modular Programs

The Assistant CheckMark Flexware

Controller Series MultiLedger

Great Plains SBT Database
Accounting Accounting

Series Library

Vendor

Version
Module price

Minimum memory required

General Features

Maximum employees
Maximum entry amount
Maximum income categories
Maximum deduction categories
Calculation of pay

User-definable income categories
User-definable deduction categories
Standard annual federal tax table
Maximum state tax tables
Pay periods provided

Allows nontaxable pay

Allows taxable fringe benefits

Same screen to enter all employee hours

Memo/note fields in employee record

Inactive employee option

Prints checks

Reports

Screen, disk, graphs

YTD and QTD earnings register

Check register

Federal tax deposits

State withholding deposits

FUTAand SUTA

W-2 forms

Mailing labels

Lake Avenue

CheckMark

Microfinancial

Great Plains

Small Business

Software

Software

Corporation

Software

Technology

5.1

1.03 (P/R-2.4)

6.0

4.2

6.15

$595

$295

$795

$795

dPayroll, $395

512K

128K

1MB

512KE

512K

limited *

limited * **

limited *

limited *

16 million

$999,999.99

$99,999.99

$999,999.00

$9,999,999.99

$999,999.99

4

3

99

2000

14

6

99

limited *

13

automatic

manual/

manual/

automatic

manual/

automatic

automatic

automatic

1

2

99

2000

3

8

6

99

limited *

8

•

•

•

•

•

all

6

all

all

all

4

4

user defined

8

4

extra cost

•

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Limited by memory

176 September 1988

I All-in-One Programs

i Special Function Programs

j

noaiis]

WOSFund

Accounting

Simply

Accounting

BPI Entry
Series
Accounting

Business

Sense

In-House

Accountant

Payroll Aatrix

Bridge Payroll

WOS Data

Bedford

Computer

Monogram

Migent

Software Bridge

Aatrix

Systems

Software

Associates Int’l

Software

2.25

1.03

1.0

2.25/1.0

1.05

5.0 and 4.0

3.01

$2300

included

included

included

included

$495

$179

512K

512KE

512K

limited *

1000

2000

2000

limited *

limited *

$99,999,999.99

$9,999,999.99

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Inventory

Modular Programs

The Assistant CheckMark Flexware Great Plains Insight

Controller Series MultiLedger Microfinancial Accounting Accounting

Series Series

Vendor

Lake Avenue

CheckMark

Microfinancial

Great Plains

Layered

Software

Software

Corporation

Software

Version

5.1

1.03 (P/R-2.4)

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7 dig., 1 dec.

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7 dig., 3 dec.

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Multi-User Desktop
Accounting

Rags to Riches SBT Database

Accounting Series Accounting Library

Accountant, Inc.

Simply Accounting In-House Accountant

Circo Business

Chang Labs

Small Riisine.ss

Softsync.Inc.

Bedford

Migent, Inc.

Solutions

Technology

Software

2.01

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included

$399.95

included in A/R

included

included

included

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ter the transactions on different forms. A
major weakness of Accountant, Inc., is that
it does not offer a payroll module at pre-
sent. (Softsync plans to release a payroll
module and network capabilities soon.)

Plains & Simple, an online accounting
system, and Insight OneWrite, which uses
cash disbursements instead of A/P, dupli-
cate the one-write ledgers on the screen.
The printed data or data on disk can then
be processed later by a bookkeeper or an
accounting service. These programs pro-
vide ledgers similar to manual one-write
records, thereby reducing the learning
curve for people who have been using this
accounting method.

The BPI Entry Series Accounting pro-
gram is essentially an electronic set of led-
gers, with most of the work done manually.
The program’s $89 list price is its main
attraction.

A program intended for the non-book-
keeper is In-House Accountant, which uses
one generic electronic form for all entries.
The program appears fairly easy to use,
and small-business owners who have not
done manual accounting may find it easier

to learn than the one-write method.

Peachtree Software’s Back to Basics:
Professional program is currently sched-
uled for release, and is geared to consul-
tants or professionals who sell services. It
contains G/L, A/R, and A/P segments, with
most of the emphasis on A/R and invoicing.

Special Function

The third category consists of pro-
grams that handle one or more accounting
applications but do not have a G/L core.
This category contains the payroll-only
programs, along with ShopKeeper, which
provides POS processing and A/R.

Aatrix Payroll is a good basic payroll
program. One oddity, however, is that it
saves each employee’s records as a sepa-
rate file, with the employee’s name or code
serving as a file name. This will strike
those of us used to working with databases
as highly unusual; but the process seems to
work. In addition to offering Payroll ver-
sion 3.01, Aatrix will soon introduce Aatrix
Payroll Plus version 2.0. The new version
will offer additional features, such as more
income categories, special sections for res-

Additional Modules

Many of the accounting programs offer separate modules to handle specialized accounting needs. The
following list covers vertical modules that can be purchased for the programs included in “General Ac-
counting Table.”

The Assistant Controller Accounting Series

Enhanced Reports

$295

Order Entry/Invoice

$595

Job Costing

$595

Professional Time Billing

$595

Point of Sale

$795

Client Write-Up

$995

CheckMark MultiLedger

Cash Ledger

$195

Flexware

Job Costing

$795

Purchasing

$795

Order Processing

$795

Great Plains Accounting Series

Order Entry

$795

Purcha.se Order

$795

Executive Advisor

$595

Insight Accounting Series

In.sight Export

S149

Rags to Riches Accounting Series

Professional Billing

$399.95

SBT Database Accounting
dOrders

$395

dPurchase

$395

dAssets

$395

dProject

$395

dMaterials

$395

dProfessional

$395

dProperty

$395

dMainienance

$395

dMenu/Backup

$65

WOS Fund Accounting
Timbuktu

$189.50-$495

WOS Database

$195-$495

Detente Reports

$189.50

Back- to -Basics: Professional Accounting

Separate Invoice Package

included

180 September 1988

taurants and contractors, and the calcula-
tion of accumulated sick pay and vacation
based on hours worked.

Payroll Bridge is more expensive, but
has a richer feature set, than Aatrix Payroll.
Payroll Bridge comes with a run-time ver-
sion of Omnis 3 Plus. The product s main
appeal lies in its multiuser capacity and its
ability to merge data into Circo’s MDA pro-
gram. Among its features is the ability to
split pay for job costing, as well as a wide
selection of employee and payroll reports.

Payroll Bridge’s and Aatrix Payroll’s
features are compared to other programs
on the Payroll table only.

It is difficult to compare ShopKeeper,
from ShopKeeper Software, which does
not appear in any of the tables, with other
business accounting packages. Shop-
Keeper is an integrated program for retail
or wholesale businesses that require inven-
tory control. It features POS entry, inven-
tory and cash drawer control, and billing
and A/R. The program imports and ex-
ports data and supports up to 25 depart-
ments and/or profit centers. The publisher
offers one year of free technical support.

' t File Edit UJIndoui Form Report Rctlon Find Setup

Insight

Layered's Insight modules are designed specifi-
cally for the Mac environment, and it shows.

Back Accounts

John Gardner, co-
owner of P.G. Back-
helpers, reclines in one
of the many ergo-
nomic products his
company provides to
help people reduce dis-
comfort arising from
back pain. He uses
Rags to Riches to
maintain his retail ac-
counts because “it is
simple to learn and
easy to use. “

The program’s capacities are well suited to
a small business, and it produces all the
standard reports, including customer in-
voices and statements.

A companion program to ShopKeeper,
Bill-It contains most of ShopKeeper’s fea-
tures except inventory controls. It is intend-
ed for consultants, print shops, and other
service businesses that need only a list
of billable services or inventory items,
along with general billing functions.
ShopKeeper sells for $195, and a multiuser
version will be available soon for $295.
Bill-It costs $159.

Take Your Choice

Which is the best program for your
specific needs? If you have a bookkeeper
or an accounting department, you should
give serious consideration to the modular
programs — but don’t eliminate the all-in-
one programs, since they might have the
features and the capacity you want. If you
are a combination owner/manager/book-
keeper or a part-time bookeeper, evaluate
the all-in-one programs. Examine the one-
write offerings and In-House Accountant if
you prefer to leave ledgers and journals to
someone else.

Non-bookkeepers should look for
programs that provide an ample number of
reports. Reports offer immediate feedback

on your business, something you usually
have to wait for an accounting service to
supply on a quarterly or semiannual basis.

Special function programs and se-
lected modules from the modular pro-
grams can save time on tasks such as pay-
roll, billing, or bill-paying. In fact, you may
find that a payroll program (especially one
that feeds details into your G/L) costs less
and gives you better control than using an
outside payroll service.

The three accompanying tables pro-
vide a detailed look at the various account-
ing programs. Once you’ve narrow^ed your
search, be sure to see a demonstration of
the program before buying it. Ask your
software salesperson specific questions,
and if you can’t get authoritative answers,
call the publishers (listed in the Where to
Buy section of this issue). And most im-
portant, don’t forget to involve your book-
keeper or accountant in the decision
process. □

See Where to Buy for contact information.

The author would like to thank Bob Taylor and
Adrian Toole for their valuable accounting assis-
tance during the preparation of the three fea-
tures tables.

.Macworld 181

Drawing
the Line

A pen-plotter primer

182 ’ September 1988

Y

• ouVe already made
the decision to use your Macintosh for
computer-aided design (CAD). You know
the Mac’s advanced screen graphics and
easy-to-use CAD software will do a great
job in creating your engineering or archi-
tectural drawings. Now you face another
decision — how to get your CAD drawings
on paper.

Neither the LaserWriter nor the
ImageWriter can handle the large-format
drawings you need to produce. You could
paste together a mosaic of 8‘/2-by-ll-inch
LaserWriter output (as some architects do)
to produce large drawings, and you know
this method allows full use of Macintosh
fonts and fill patterns, but you need color.
So, like most CAD users, you've decided on
a plotter. But which one?

The Plot Thickens

There are three types of plotters: elec-
trostatic, dot matrix, and pen. Electrostatic
plotters are similar to laser printers in con-

David L Peltz is a Macworld contribiPing editor
and the president of CAD ventures, a consul-
taficy specializing in microcomputer graphics
applications. He has been involved in the com-
puter graphics industry since 1966.

by David L. Peltz

cept and output quality but use special pa-
per and a different imaging technology.
They are available in monochrome and col-
or at up to 400 dots per inch (dpi ), they’re
very fast, and they generally use continu-
ous rolls of paper up to 36 inches wide.
Electrostatics’ main problem has been high
cost — still as much as $100,000. Prices are
falling, but even tlie smallest electrostatics,
at $25,000 to 330,000, are still beyond the
reach of most Mac users.

Dot matrix plotters are outgrowths of
dot matrix printer technology. The 27-pin
Apple ImageWriter LQ, with its 216-dpi
multicolor facilities, qualifies as an A- or
B-size dot matrix plotter. However, no Mac
CAD software currently supports its use as
this type of de\ice. The JDL-850EWS/GL+
Engineering Workstation Printer/Plotter is
similar to the ImageWriter LQ but goes a
few steps further. In addition to emulating
a number of printers, its built-in micro-
processor can emulate several Hewlett-
Packard pen plotters. It does all this at 180
dpi, in up to 14 colors, on up to C-si/e ]

pa

per, using a 24-pin print head. The QMS-PS
810 laser printer can also emulate certain
HP plotters.

For the production of inked drawings
up to E-si/.e, however, the pen plotter still
reigns. For over 20 years, computer gurus
have been predicting the extinction of pen
plotters. It hasn’t happened yet.

The basics of pen-plotter mechanism
design haven't changed much over the
years, though they have been greatly re-
fined. I nder computer command, the plot-
ter’s pen is lowered and raised. When
down, it leaves a trail of ink on the me-
dium. When up, it moves from one part of
the medium to another without making a

The Houston Instru-
ment PC-695 A is a ta-
bletop, four-pen plotter
that easily fits in prac-
tically any workspace.
Like numerous other
pen plotters of its type,
it provides accurate,
low-cost, A- and B-size
plots.

mark. Pens move in two ways. Flatbed plot-
ters use vacuum or electrostatic means to
hold the media stationary on a fiat surface
while the pen moves along both the .v and
V axes. Drum plotters use a grit drum that
moves the medium back and forth along
one axis while a rail moves the pen along
the other axis. Because all flatbed plotters
take up a lot of space, most offices can ac-
commodate only the smaller models. For
large-format drawings, drum plotters are
more popular.

Another way to classify pen plotters is
by the size of media they handle. If all you
do is produce 8l/2-by-l 1-inch (A-size) or 11-
by-17-inch (B-size) drawings, one of the
tabletop models will meet your needs at a
relatively low cost. However, if \ou produce
larger drawings — from 17-by-22-inch (C-

size) through 36-by-48-inch (E-size) —
you’re going to need one of the more ex-
pensive, floor-standing plotters.

Floor-standing drum plotters come in
two size classes, determined by the width
of their mechani.sm. The smaller ones have
a paper path just over 24 inches wide and
handle A- through D-size paper. The larger
ones have a paper path just over 36 inches
wide and handle sheets of A- through
E-size paper. A few also handle continuous
rolls of paper.

The tabletop plotters come in A-size
and A- through B-size. At least one (the HP
7550A, from Hewlett-Packard) stores 100
sheets of A-size paper in a drawer and can
feed it automatically for unattended opera-
tion. The chart “Plotters Compared” lists
the media size range accommodated by
each plotter.

When the Chooser Doesn’t

We Mac users have been spoiled by
our elegant Chooser facility. WeVe come to
expect to access all our output devices by
simply pointing to an icon. Unfortunately,
Mac plotter software hasn’t yet achieved
that level of sophistication.

Some CAD packages have their plot
facilities in the File menu (where they be-
long). Others require you to exit the CAD
application and launch a separate plot ap-
plication from the Finder. Once you’ve
gained access to your plot facilities, you'll
find very different ways of determining
what will get plotted, and where on the
media it will end up. Some programs re-
quire you to hop from menu to menu, typ-
ing in numbers along the way. All too of-
ten, what you end up with after a long plot
session is not what you wanted.

Why is it so unMaclike? Apple didn’t
provide any Chooser facilities for plotters,
nor did it set any standards. So each soft-
ware developer did what it felt was best.
The result, sadly, reminds me all too much
of the MS-DOS world, where the same lack
of commonality prevails. It's never too late,
though, and according to Apple's evange-
lism group, the company is now at least
looking into addressing the problem. In
addition, now that plotter manufacturers
are becoming more interested in the Mac
market, some are seriously looking at
Chooser-level plotter drivers as an aid in
selling their plotters to Mac users. At this
writing, CalComp has a driver in beta test-
ing. Others are rumored.

Before you bu\' a plotter, you should
make sure that the Mac CAD software you
use can drive it. This requires a driver.

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September 1988

which may be in the CAD software itself
or part of a third-party product. In either
case, the driver needs to support the spe-
cific plotter make and model or, at the
least, to support enough of its plotter lan-
guage to perform proper pen movement
and selection.

Plotter Languages

A plotter language consists of a set of
command formats that tell the plotter what
to do. CalComp s 900-series format used to
be the plotter industry’s de facto standard.
In recent years, however, the situation has
changed, particularly at the lower end of
the plotting spectrum. In the early 1980s,
HP introduced the first of its 7500-series
plotters, which at the time were priced
right for the expanding micro CAD market.
HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Lan-
guage) quickly became the dominant
language.

All Mac CAD packages that support
plotters, and all third-party Mac plotter util-
ities, support HPGL. You can now buy plot-
ters that support HPGL commands from a
host of manufacturers. Even CalComp’s lat-
est plotters are HPGL compatible via a facil-
ity CalComp calls CPGL, but which follows
HPGL conventions.

The second most popular plotter lan-
guage in Macintosh CAD today is DM/PL
from Houston Instrument. “Plotters Com-
pared” lists the languages used by each of
the plotters. Note that some can use more
than one, offering you additional flexibility.

Quality Counts

“Plotters Compared” also lists three
plotter characteristics that affect the qual-
ity of your finished drawings: accuracy, res-
olution, and repeatability.

Accuracy defines how closely a line
will be drawn to its intended length. An er-
ror margin of 0.01 inch is about as good as
pen plotters get these days. Unfortunately,
not all plotter vendors make this informa-
tion known.

Resolution defines the smallest step a
pen can be directed to take. High resolu-
tion is particularly useful in drawing
curves, since curves that contain more
small segments look smoother.

Repeatability defines how nearly a
pen can be expected to return to its point
of departure once it has moved. The fig-
ures listed are for the same pen. If you
change pens, the probability of its starting
exactly at the same location on a drawing is
lower. The better plotters (even inexpen-

sive ones) have a repeatability of about
0.004 inch. A higher number usually indi-
cates that your drawing will not look quite
as good, since corners may not match.

All of today’s plotters are well made,
and they are far more reliable than they
were years ago. So-called MTBFs (mean
time between failures) of 3000 to 4000
hours are common today.

One warning: Buying a high-quality
plotter doesn’t guarantee you’ll get high-
quality plots. You must match the media,
pen type, ink type, pen speed, and even
the amount of force with which the pen is
applied to the medium. If you don’t, you’ll
get terrible plots even out of the best plot-

ter. The best way to ensure consistent re-
sults is to find a plotter that can use the
type of media you require, and then stick
to the exact pen type, media type, pen
speed, and contact force settings the plot-
ter manufacturer recommends. The com-
panies researched the subject for years and
have chosen combinations that their tests
have shown to work the best.

The Artisan 1023 is the
latest in a long line of
floor-model, drum-
type plotters from Cal-
Comp. It produces A-
through D-size plots in
up to eight colors.

When the Fastest Isn’t

The most commonly quoted perfor-
mance figure for plotters is pen speed, usu-
ally expressed in inches per second (ips).
This is the maximum speed at which a plot-
ter can move its pen across the media. An-
other common statistic is acceleration rate
(see “Plotters Compared”). In the real
world, however, the plotter with the fastest

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Height (in.)

41

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47

47

3.2

41

41

9.2

4.4

Width (in.)

37

54

54

54

18

39

39

17.5

21.2

Depth (in.)

16

22

22

22

11.5

8

8

7.8

8

Weight (lbs.)

84

150

150

150

8

100

65

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Specifications

Max. pen speed (in./sec.)

30

24

24

24

14

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31.5

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Max. acceleration (g’s)

2.8

1.2

1.2

1.2

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2

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n/a

n/a

Accuracy (percent of move)

0.10%

0.10%

0.10%

0.10%

n/a

0.20%

0.20%

n/a

0.35%

Resolution (in.)

0.0005

0.0005

0.0005

0.0005

0.001

0.00025

0.00025

0.005

0.001

Repeatability (in., same pen)

0.005

0.005

0.005

0.005

0.004

0.004

0.004

0.004

0.005

Pens

Standard number of pens
Max. number of pens

8

8

8

8

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On-board CPU

68000

68008

68008

68008

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2048K

22K

22K

22K

7.5K

18K

16K

256 bytes

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Auto, set of pen speed/pressures

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9600

9600

9600

9600

9600

9600

9600

9600

9600

Firmware

Constant pen velocity

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Compared

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3.5

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21

23

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46.5

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17

17

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7

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7.8

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0.002

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0.012

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9600

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188 September 1988

raw statistics may not be the fastest plotter.
What’s important is not how fast the pen
travels, but throughput — how long it takes
for a drawing to be completed.

Factors that influence a plotter’s
throughput include pen-up speed (not
necessarily the same as pen-down speed),
pen-change speed, and — most import-
ant — optimization of the plotting sequence
to minimize the number of pen changes
and pen movements. To illustrate how all
these factors affect a plotter’s throughput,
we plotted a drawing file obtained from
IGC Technology, the creators of PEGASYS
CAD for the Mac (see “Throughput
Express”).

When you inspect the graph
“Throughput Time Trials,” you’ll see that
plotter throughput is not directly propor-
tional to maximum pen speed. The victori-
ous HP DraftMaster has a pen speed of
only 24 ips, while the third-place DMP-61
has a speed of 32 ips. The lack of linearity
in pen speed versus throughput is ex-
plained by the DraftMaster’s 5.7 g accel-
eration rate, very fast pen-up speed, fast
pen-changing mechanism, and plot-optimi-
zation firmware. Similarly, the 30-ips Cal-
Comp 1023 provides greater throughput
than the 31.5-ips HP 7550A or the 32-ips
Houston Instrument DMP-61. This is due
primarily to CalComp’s plot optimization
firmware, which more than makes up for
the other plotters’ faster pen speeds and
pen-changing mechanisms.

So What Is Optimization?

Years ago mathematical algorithms
were developed for predicting the best
pen velocities for all plotter cornering situ-
ations. Like a skilled race car driver, some
optimization firmware keeps its vehicle
(the pen) moving at the top speed possible
through all the abrupt cornering moves
needed to plot a drawing. The more so-
phisticated plotters actually look ahead to
see the angle of the path they will take
next and adjust themselves accordingly,
only slowing down if there is a large
change in angle ahead.

Another type of optimization firm-
ware continuously looks at the incoming
drawing data with an eye toward minimiz-
ing the number of pen changes and keep-
ing a pen active in a given area of the draw-
ing for as long as possible before moving
on. Still other types of optimization are
concerned with drawing quality — making
sure, for example, that the pen always
moves at a constant velocity (to keep the
line uniform in density) regardless of

whether it is doing an axial {x ovy only)
or non-axial (simultaneous a* and jO
movement.

Recently it has become both economi-
cally and physically feasible to implement
all these optimization algorithms directly
inside the plotters. We now have full-blown
computer systems inside many pen plot-
ters; some, for example, are now equipped
with 32-bit CPUs. “Plotters Compared”
shows the optimization capabilities, if any,
of each plotter listed.

To assess the degree of improvement
that optimization can provide, I compared
a CalComp 1023 running with its Plot
Manager firmware in use and then with it

turned off On one-pen (monochrome)
tests, the reduction in plot time achieved
by having the plotter internally sort the
plot commands — to draw elements in the
most efficient order — came to 20 percent.
When the identical plot was made with
four pens, optimization reduced the num-
ber of pen changes from 89 to 4 and the to-
tal plot time by a whopping 36 percent.

The Beauty of Buffering

How long it takes a plotter to plot is
critical, since most Mac plotting software
ties up the computer when it’s plotting. As
a serial activity, plotting could become a
background task in the future, particularly
with MultiFinder. One Mac CAD package,
SNAP from Data Basics, already treats plot-
ting as a background task. For the most
part, however, we’ll have to live with the
unavailability of our Macs while we’re

Throughput Express
The throughput test
drawing contains 202
circles or arcs, 24 dou-
ble lines, 25 fillets, 6l6
lines, 50 polygons, 41
rectangles, and 2
blocks of text. This de-
tail comes frotn a ver-
sion plotted on a Cal-
Comp 1023.

Macworld

189

Tying It All Together

Most Mac technology at least
approaches the “plug and play”
ideal. Pen plotters, however,
still have a long way to go
on this road. Every plotter I
worked with in researching this
article presented at least one
new hardware challenge. For
example, few had the same in-
put connectors (some were
male, others female, and one
used a modular phone jack),
even though all were sup-
posedly RS-232C serial devices.

Once you’ve taken delivery
of a plotter, expect to need help
getting it to work. You may
have to talk to your plotter
dealer, the manufacturer, and
the CAD or plotter-driver soft-
ware developer to get all the
information you need.

Even assuming your software
supports your plotter, your
problems aren’t behind you.
First, you need a cable to con-
nect the plotter to your Mac.
Many variations exist. With few
exceptions, you won’t even find
the words Macintosh cable in

your plotter documentation.
Your best bet is to buy the plot-
ter and the cable from someone
who has experience with Macs.
Fortunately, more and more Ap-
ple dealers are beginning to
carry plotters.

To help you out, the three
schematic diagrams presented
here show the connections re-
quired to get most plotters to
work with a Mac. Armed with
this previously w'ell-hidden
technical data, you should be
able to convince almost any
dealer or service person to
help you set up. (Note that Ap-
ple no longer lists the Image-
Writer I cables in its price lists,
so they may be hard to find.)

Once you’ve solved the ca-
bling problem, how’ever, you
still have to get other things to
work. \bu must carefully set all
the choices in the Mac software
driver and all the plotter’s vari-
ous hardware-related, software-
related, and firmware-related
controls, switches, and panel
settings to agree with each oth-

er. This includes plotter lan-
guage, baud rate, number of
data and stop bits, type of
parity (if any), and type of
handshaking.

In some Mac CAD packages,
such as VersaCAD, most of
these settings are fixed. Other
packages give \'ou a choice. Al-
though my needs are atypical,
rather than go crazy with over
a dozen CAD packages on my
Mac and (at the time of this
writing) with five different plot-
ters, I used the following set-
tings as a standard: 9600 baud,

8 bits, 1 stop-bit, no parity. By
coincidence, these are Versa-
CAD’s nonselectable settings
(which are not found amwhere
in its manual). So far, the setup
is working for me. With just
one CAD package and one plot-
ter, all you have to do is find
one complement of settings
that works (usually by trial and
error or by talking with some-
one who’s already been
successful).

Cable configurations

Macintosh end
DIN-8 connector

Apple coble

Plotter end
DB25 connector

Mocintosh end
DIN-8 connector

Apple coble

Inlermediote
DB9 connector

Plotter end
D825 connector

Modntosh end
DIN-8 connector

Intermediate
DB9 connector

DB25

connector

Plotter end
DB25 connector

Diagram A is a cable configuration
that will hook most plotters to a
Mac Pitts, SE, or 11. Depending on
your plotter, the 25 pin connector
will be either male or female.
Shielded wire is highly recom-

mended. Diagram B shows an alter-
native that makes use of standard
Mac cables: the cable on the left is
knotni as an M019 Macintosh Plus
Peripheral Cable; the one on the
right is an ImageWriter cable. Dia-

gram C shows how complicated
things can get. As you can see, the
CalComp 1023 requires yet another
adapter, available from CalComp
as cable number BC 909-021.

190 September 1988

Plot Time
in Minutes

HP7550A
31.5 ips, $3900

CaiComp1023
30 ips. optimized, $4895

HP DraftMaster
24 ips. optimized. $9900

making plots. If you plan to do a lot of plot-
ting, either buy the most sophisticated plot-
ter you can afford, to get the greatest de-
gree of throughput, or consider using one
Mac as a dedicated plotter-driving machine.

An alternative is to buy one of the plot-
ters that incorporates a data buffer. For
example, the new Houston Instrument
DMP-6X-series plotters are expandable to
1 megabyte of RAM, and the CalComp 1023
is expandable to 2MB. Once the data is
downloaded, your Mac is free for other
tasks. In addition, the data in the buffer can
be used for quick “offline” replots. This is
handy when you need multiple copies or
when something goes wrong during a plot.

Don’t Forget Service and Supplies

If you want to avoid trouble after
spending a lot of money on your pen plot-
ter, make sure that the supplies for the ma-
chine you’re interested in are readily avail-
able from a local dealer, or at least can be
had on short notice from a remote but rep-
utable supplier. Established plotter sup-
pliers like CalComp, Hewlett-Packard, and
Houston Instrument have telemarketing or-
ganizations that provide overnight delivery
of supplies.

In the unlikely event that your plotter
breaks down, you’ll want local service, or
at least the ability to get a fast replacement.
You might want to check out Houston In-
strument’s Priority Response Overnight
Service Program which, for a price, guar-
antees a replacement plotter unit via
overnight Federal Express if yours breaks
down. Check out what services your poten-
tial vendor offers.

Author’s Choices

Researching this article, I extensively
tested five pen plotters and examined
scores of others. Naturally, I began to form
opinions about what I like and what I don’t
like. Of all the A- to B-size tabletop plotters
I’ve examined, the Hewlett-Packard 7550A
comes closest to my ideal. It’s fast and accu-
rate, rivaling the $5000 floor models in
throughput. It also has controls that are
easy to use and is supported by just about
every Mac CAD software package. With its
automatic paper feed, the 7550A can even
do multiple A-size plots unattended. (In ad-
dition to plotting CAD drawings, I also use
my plotters for printing presentation mate-
rials; unattended operation allows me to
make a whole series of charts without hav-
ing to be there to load the paper.)

In the floor-mounted A- to D-size
models, as you’ve probably guessed by
now, my choice is the CalComp 1023. It
packs a lot of features, performance, and
capability into a package that currently has
a street price of $4100 to $4200. In addition
to its sturdy construction, up to 2MB of
RAM, effective optimization firmware, and
wide choice of languages, I particularly like
the way it automatically senses pen type
and stores up to four complete sets of user
settings. All in all, a complement of useful
features you don’t find on any of the less-
expensive models. I also like the 1023 be-
cause it seems far quieter than all the oth-
ers I’ve tested. In my small office, that’s
very important. □

See Where to Buy for contact information.

Throughput Time
Trials

The plotters tested here
represent a range of
the plotters that will
work with the Mac. I
ran all plotters at
9600 baud and at
their fastest pen speed,
and had PHGAS)'S
scale the output com-
mands to make the
drawings fit on A-, B-,
C-, and D-size media.
Two plots of each
drawing size were
made with each plot-
ter, one in color and
one in monochrome.

Macworld

191

World-Class

The vote that counts in the marketplace is the one you
cast with your wallet. In the World-Class contest we
were after your opinions. Which products deserve a
world-class rating based on performance and value?
When compared with similar products, which single
product stands out as the most coveted and respected?
For the second year in a row, we asked Macworld
readers to vote for their favorite Macintosh products in
42 categories. We chose three winners at random from
the thousands of responses we received.

Any contest worth its salt offers a tantalizing
grand prize. Macworld'^ grand-prize winner receives
most of the top-voted hardware and software products.
The runner-up gets the winning software packages,
and the third-place winner receives a selection of win-
ning software programs.

The Prizewinners

The grand-prize winners are Craig and Robin
Richart of Glendale, Arizona. The Richarts own an Ap-
ple II, which their elementary school-age children
use, but they don’t own a Mac. On the job Craig uses
an IBM PC to do most of his work but seeks out the
Mac Plus in his department when he has a report to
prepare. Craig’s enthusiasm for the Mac led to Robin
learning it on weekends at the office. Now she’ll have a
world-class system when she returns to college this
fall to finish her B.A., and Craig will have a chance to
put that enthusiasm to work at home learning new
products.

The second-prize winner, Craig A. Mattocks, is a
research scientist in meteorology at Meso, in Hampton,
Virginia. Craig uses mainframes such as the Cray to
study and model the atmosphere. The results are
downloaded to a Mac SE and animated. Meso recently
became an official Apple developer and ordered a Mac
II. One of its plans for the Mac II is to compile a Hyper-
Card gallery of famous storms.

Our third-prize winner is Tom Horowitz of Santa
Ana, California. As a developer and contractor, Tom
runs his business with two Mac Pluses, a Mac SE, an
ImageWriter II, a Personal LaserPrinter, a DataFrame
20 hard disk, and two CMS drives. He produces cost
breakdowns, project schedules, and invoices with Rag-
time, Microsoft Excel, and FileMaker Plus.

The Winning Products

Rather than simply list all of the winning products
on the following table, w’e’ve selected the products
that received a significant percentage of the votes. The
Others category represents the combined percentage
for product nominations that don’t appear on the
table; a higher number indicates more contenders in
a given category. Since not everyone voted in all the
categories, we Ve noted the percentage of survey re-
spondents in each category. The results of the contest

should not be construed as a Macworld endorsement,
but they clearly signal readers’ preferences.

And what the readers prefer this year is power
and versatility. For example. Jasmine’s 80-megabyte
hard disk won over the 20MB drives, and Jasmine’s
MegaDrive, a 10MB removable floppy that can be used
as a hard disk or for backup, headed the alternative
mass storage category. The Mac II was voted Most
Promising Newcomer, but if the vote for the Prodigy SE
in the Mac upgrade category is any indication of buy-
ing trends, it appears that more readers own SEs.

While the Hayes Smartmodem 2400 held its place as
the winning product overall and the Hayes Smart-
modem 9600 made the top 10, the vote for Migent’s
Pocket Modem confirms that many Mac consumers
favor \^rsatility.

With the advent of the Mac II came new hardw^are
categories. Apple won Best Color Monitor and Radius
repeated last year’s performance, winning Best Black-
and-white Display. SuperMac captured the most votes
for Best Graphics Board, with Apple’s 8-bit expansion
kit a close second. Next year the graphics board cate-
gory will be even more interesting with the increased
availability of 24-bit graphic and video cards. Sur-
prisingly, despite the interest in desktop publishing
and the presence of several gray-scale scanners, read-
ers voted overwhelmingly for ThunderScan rather
than the more sophisticated, more expensive scanners.

Readers had more printers to choose from than
last year, but Apple’s ImageWriter II and LaserWriter
garnered most of the votes. It was too early to tell how
Apple’s LaserWriter II line will fare against printers
from QMS and General Computer, but the high-end
NTX seems to have made a strong initial impression.

If any product stole the show, it was HyperCard.
Probably this year’s most versatile and popular prod-
uct, HyperCard won first in Programming Language,
Personal Management, Education/Training, and Most
Promising Newcomer, and took third place in Inte-
grated Products.

Although Apple took the lion’s share of votes, the
voting was dispersed over more products this year
than last. Apple won ten categories (six products),
while Microsoft won only three categories compared
with last year’s nine. The winners in many categories
were predictable, but other categories do not yet re-
flect the impact of products that began shipping in Jan-
uary. We’ll have to wait until next year to see what re-
ally happens with word processors. How successfully
will FullWrite or WordPerfect make inroads upon
Microsoft Word’s dominating first place on the list?

We’d like to thank our readers for taking the time
to respond in this year’s World-Class contest. We plan
to continue the contest next year, giving you another
chance to voice your opinions.

PtiOTOGRAPMS W FRED STIMSON

Macw'orld 193

% ofVotes Product, ManulBacturer

Display— B&W

31 Full Page Display, Radius

1 1 Hi-Res Monochrome Monitor, Apple Computer
9 TWo Page Display, Radius
8 The Big Picture, E-Machines
41 Others
100 Tbtal

(17% of respondents voted in this category)

44 Color Hi-Res RGB Monitor, Apple Computer
21 19-inch Color Trinitron Monitor, SuperMac Tedmology
9 The Big Picture, E-Machines
26 Others
100 Total

(13% of respondents voted in this category)

Graphics Board

37 SuperMac Spectrum 8, SuperMac Technology

34 Mac II Video Card Expansion Kit, Apple Computer
29 Others
100 Total

(6% of respondents voted in this category)

194 September 1988

Communications

Board

17 Macirma, Digital Communication Associates
17 EtherTalk Board, Apple Computer
1 3 EtherPort SE, Kinetics
1 0 Mac286, AST Research

7 AppleTalk PC Card, Apple Computer
1 AST Research

29 Others
100 Total

(3% of respondents voted in this category)

Hard Disk

14 DirectDrive SO Jasmine Technologies

1 2 Apple HD20SC, Apple Computer
6 DirectDrive 20 Jasmine Tecimologies
4 Apple HD20, Apple Computer

4 DirectDrive 500 Jasmine Technologies
3 MacBottom HD2 1 , Personal Computer Peripherals
3 DataFrame XP-30, SuperMac Technology
54 Others
100 Total

( 49 % of respondents voted in this category)

Alternative Mass
Storage

MegaDrive Jasmine Technologies

Apple 800K External Drive, App/e Computer

QT-Mac-40, Tecmar

Others

Total

(13% of respondents voted in this categor>0

Input Device

10 lUrbo Mouse, Kettsington

8 Mouse Trackball-Propoi ni , Aba ton

8 Apple Expanded Keyboard, Apple Computer
8 Mac- 101 Enhanced Keyboard, Apple Computer
6 A+ Mouse, Mouse Systeins
60 Others
100 Total

(16% of respondents voted in this category*)

Macv^'orld 195

Hardware

Macintosh CPU
Upgrade

% of Votes Product, Manufacturer

24 Prodigy SE, SuperMac Technology
1 3 Radius Accelerator, Radius
8 Prodigy 4, Levco
5 Orion 25, MacPeak Systems

50 Others
100 Total

(14% of respondents voted in this category)

Modem

20 Smartmodem 2400, Hayes Microcomputer

1 3 Apple Personal Modem, Apple Computer
13 Smartmodem 1 200, Hayes Microcomputer
8 Migent Pocket Modem , Migent
5 Courier 2400, US Robotics
4 Practical Modem 2400SA, Practical Peripheral

4 Avetex HCl 200, AvetexIDatacom
3 Apple 300/1200 Baud Modem, App/e Computer
3 Smartmodem 9600, Hayes Microcomputer
27 Others
100 Total

(26% of respondents voied in this categor>*)

65 ThunderScan, Tbunderware

6 MacVision, Koala Technologies
4 AST Tb rboScan , AST Research
3 Sharp JX-450, Sharp

3 Abaton300,A^^row
2 Abaton300/FB,

17 Others
100 Total

(23% of respondents voted in this category)

Printer — Dot
Matrix

71 ImageWriter II, Apple Computer
1 2 ImageWriter LQ, Apple Computer
1 1 ImageWriter/ImageWriter I, Apple Computer
6 Others
100 Total

(23% of respondents voted in this caiegor>0

196 September 1988

: Hardware

% ofVotes Product, Manufacturer

Printer — Laser

6l LaserWriter Pli^s, Apple Computer
8 LaserWriter IINTX, Apple Computer
1 LaserWriter, Apple Computer
4 Personal Laser Pr inter- PLP, General Computer

4 QxMS-PS810,(3Ar5
16 Others
100 Total

(34% of respondents voted in this category)

Printer — Color

37 ImageWriter II, Apple Computer

1 4 Shinko Color Printer, Computer Friends
1 0 ImageWriter LQ, /pple Computer
1 Tektronix 4693D, Tektronix
5 Panchroma Color Printer, Computer Friends
5 JX-550 4-color thermal printer. Sharp

22 Others
100 Total

(6% of respondents voted in this category)

Plotter

42 HP 7475, HeivlettPackard
14 HP Color Pro, Hewlett-Packard
12 HP 7550, Hewlett-Packard
1 HP DraftPro, Hewlett-Packard

25 Others
100 Tbtal

(4% of respondents voted in this category)

Most Promising
Newcomer

23 Mac II, Apple Computer
1 LaserWriter II, Apple Computer
6 ImageWriter LQ, ?pple Computer
6 DaynaFile, Dayna Communications
4 Personal LaserPrinter-PLP, General Computer
54 Others
100 Total

(16% of respondents voted in this categor>')

Macworld 197

67 Microsoft Word, Microsoft

17 WriteNow, T! Maker

8 MacWrite, Claris

8 Others
100 Total

(82% of respondents voted in this category)

Database

Management

20 FileMaker Plus, Nashoba Systems

20 4th Dimension, Acius

1 1 Reflex Plus, Borland International
9 HyperCard, Apple Computer

1 Double Helix/11, Odesta
6 dBase Mac, -As/7/o/7-7c?/e

5 Microsoft Works, Microsoft
5 Omnis 3/Plus, Blyth Software
5 OverVue/Il, ProVue Development
3 Microsoft File, A/fcrosq/'/

9 Others
100 Ibtal

(48% of respondents voted in this category)

89 Microsof t Excel, Microsoft

3 MacCalc, Bravo Tkdmologies
3 Microsoft Works, Microsoft

5 Others
100 Total

(63% of respondents voted in this category)

198 September 1988

Software

Integrated

Products

% ofVotes Product, Manufacturer

70 Microsoft Works, Af/crosq/ir

1 2 Microsoft Excel, Microsoft
8 HyperCard, Apple Computer

10 Others
100 Tbtal

(30% of respondents voted in this category)

Desktop

Publishing

60 PageMaker, Aldus
26 ReadySetGo, Letraset USA
1 XPress, Quark
8 Others
100 Tbtal

(47% of respondents voted in this category)

Graphics — Paint/
Draw/Animation

38 SuperPaint, Silicon Beach Software

11 MacDraw, C/«r/s
1 0 Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Systems

10 Cricket Draw, Cricket Software
5 VideoWorks,

5 MacPaint, Claris

4 FullPaint, Ann Arbor Software/Ashton-Tate

3 PixelPaint, SuperMac Technology
3 Canvas, Deneba Software

1 1 Others
100 Tbtal

(57% of respondents voted in this category)

Graphics —

Business

Presentation

35 Cricket Graph, Cricket Software
2 1 PowerPoint , Nashoba Systems

9 Microsoft Excel, Microsoft
1 More, Symantec, Living VideoText Division
28 Others
100 Tbtal

(28% of respondents voted in this category)

Macworld 199

Software

% ofVotes Product, Manufacturer

Graphics — CAD

23 MacDraft, IDD Innovative Data

15 MGMSiation, MicroCADICAM
1 1 MiniCad, Diehl Graphsoft

9 Challenger Software

1 MacDraw, Apple Computer
6 Cricket Draw, Cricket Software

5 Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Systems

5 VersaCAD, VersaCAD
19 Others
100 Tbtal

(14% of respondents voted in this category)

Outline

Processing

66 More, Symantec, Living VideoText Division

14 Acta, Symmetry
5 MindWrite, Access 7^c/?/2o/0[g/es
4 Word, Microsoft

4 ThinkTank/ThinkTank 5 1 2, Symantec, Living VideoText Division

1 Others
100 Total

(25% of respondents voted in this category)

22 Thunder! , Electronic Arts

19 Word, Mcroso//

1 5 Spelling Coach Pro, Deneba Software
14 Working Software

8 WorksPlus Spell, Lundeen & Associates
22 Others
100 Total

(24% of respondents voted in this category)

Project

Management

50 MacProject, Claris

1 4 Micro Planner Plus, Micro Planning International
9 MacProject II, Claris
9 HyperCard, App/eCompw/er
5 AEC Information Manager, AEC Management Systetn
5 More, Symantec, Living VideoText Division
8 Others
100 Tbtal

(13% of respondents voted in this category)

200 September 1988

Software

% ofVotes Product, Manufacturer

Accounting

Insight, Layered

MacMoney, Survivor Software

Dollars and Sense, Monogram Software

Business Sense, d/o;?o^m;w Software

Plains and Simple, Great Plains Software

In-House Accountant, Migent Software

Rags to Riches, Chang Labs

Microsoft Excel, Microsoft

BPI Entry Series General Accounting, BPI Systems

Others

Total

(16% of rtrspondenis voted in this categorv')

Tax Planning/
Preparation

85 MacInTax, SoftView
4 TixView Planner, SoftView
3 M icrosof t Excel , Microsoft

8 Others
100 Total

( H% of respondents voted in this category)

Financial/

Investment

40 MacMoney, Survivor Software
1 7 Dol lars and Sense, Monogram Softu are
6 M icrosoft Excel , Microsoft
6 Market Pro, Pro Plus Software
4 Profit Stalker II, Button Down Software
4 Managing M)ur Mone\; MECA
4 MacInTax, SoftView
19 Others
100 Total

(7% of respondents voted in this category)

Personal

Management

35 HyperCard, Apple Computer

22 Electric Checkbook, State of the Art

1 3 Dol lars and Sense, Monogram Software

1 Focal Point, Activision, ciistrihuteci by Mediagenic

23 Others
100 Total

( 1S% of respondents voted in this category)

Maavorld 201

Software

Statistics/Math

% ofVotes Product, Manufacturer

39 Statview 512 +, Brainpower
15 SYSTAT, 5KSrAr
1 2 StaiWorks, Cricket Software
6 MacSpin, D Square Software

28 Others
100 Total

(13% of respondents voted in this category)

52 Red Ryder, FreeSoft

14 Microphone, Software Ventures
8 U 2 icTevmm 2 \,AppleCompiiter
7 SmartCom 1 1 , Hayes Microcomputer
5 \ersaTerm Pro, Peripherals, Computers, & Supplies
14 Others
100 Total

(33% of respondents voted in this category)

Micro- to-

Mainframe

Communications

23 VersaTerm Pro, Peripherals, Computers, & Supplies
2 1 Red Ryder, FreeSoft

10 UzcTemindX, Apple Computer
6 Reflection, Walker Richer & Quinn
6 Mac240, White Pine Software

5 VfersaTerm, Peripherals, Computers, & Supplies
29 Others
100 Total

( 1 1% of respondents voted in this categor>0

File Server

53 TOPS, TOPS, a Sun Microsystems Company
28 AppleShare, Apple Computer
13 MacServe, 7«/bsp/?ere
6 Others
100 Total

(1 1% of respondents voted in this category)

202 September 1988

Software

% of Votes Product, Manufacturer

Programming

Language

20 HyperTalk,

1 8 Turbo Pascal, Borland International
15 Lightspeed C, Think Technologies

15 Lightspeed Pascal, Think Technologies

8 MS BASIC, Microsoft
24 Others
100 Total

(33% of respondents voted in this category)

Utilities—

Programming

18 RcsEdit/Redit, Apple Computer

1 5 HyperCard, Apple Computer
\4 QuicKeys, CE Software
1 1 TMON, ICOM Simulations

42 Others
100 Total

(12% of respondents \x)tcd in this category)

Utilities— Disk
and File

21 Copy II Mac, Central Point Software

1 5 DiskFii, SuperMac Technology

1 1 DiskTop, CE Software
1 Suitcase, Software Supply

6 DiskExpress, AZ5o//

40 Others
100 Tbtal

(37% of respondents voted in this category)

26 Suitcase, Fifth Generation Systems
1 1 DiskTop, CE Software

7 SmartScrap & The Clipper, Solutiom International
10 Calculator+ZSideKick, Borland International

4 Smart A larms & The Appointment Diary, Imagine Software

42 Others
100 Total

(38% of respondents voted in this category)

Macvv'orld 203

Software

Education/

Training

% ofVotes Product, Manufacturer

31 HyperCsard^ Apple Computer
14 Typing Tutor, Simon & Schuster

9 KidsTime, Great Wave Software

46 Others
100 Total

(1 1% of respondents voted in this category)

Music

19 Studio Session, Bogas Productions

14 Deluxe Music Construction Set, Electronic Arts
14 MIDI Recording Studio, Future Music
9 Jam Session, Broderbund
44 Others
100 Total

(13^ of respondents voted in this category)

Games

35 Dark Castle, Silicon Beach Software
9 MacGolf, Practical Computer
8 Falcon, Spectrum HoloByte

8 Flight Simulator, Microsoft
3 Shanghai, Activision, distributed by Mediagenic
3 ShadowGate, Mindscape
2 Balance of Power, Mindscape

2 Hardball,

2 Chessmaster-2000, Electronic Arts

28 Others
100 Tbtal

(51% of respondents voted in this category)

Most Promising
Newcomer

44 Apple Computer

8 "PuWWviiQ, Ashton-Tate
4 Suitcase, Software Supply

3 4th Dimension, i4a«s
3 FreeHand,/\/^/«5
3 QuicKeys, CE Software
2 PixelPaint, SuperMac Technology
2 WordPerfect, WordPerfect
31 Others
100 Total

(38% of respondents voted in this category)

204 September 1988

“Can you believe it? Our team got picked
for the hottest project of the year
because they found out
we do all our work on Sony diskettes’’

he fast-moving, fast-
thinking people in
today’s competitive
corporate world
are the people pushing for
the highest standards. For
example, Sony diskettes.

People in the know; know
that Sony’s standards are the
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what made Sony a world leader
in audio, video and computer
magnetic storage media.

But selecting Sony also
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revolutionary format for the

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good as you are.

The way to do that is to
make sure they’re Sony

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best of company

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Very Professional

FulWrite Professional 1.0

Word processor with desktop publishing-oriented layout ami graphics features. Pros:
Easy-to-follow menu system; multiple-column display; integrated drawing editor; sidebar feature that
creates true runarounds. Cons: No style or property sheets; slows down noticeably when using the
disk as virtual memory in large documents. Company: Ashton-Tate. List price: $395. Requires:
IMli; external drive or hard disk.

FullWrite Professional is Ashton-
Tate’s long-awaited high-end word
processor, designed for general-
purpose word processing with the accents
on book-length manuscript preparation
and desktop publishing. Its user interface
makes producing an occasional memo
easy enough, but FullWrite’s finest fea-
tures — posted notes, graphics, and side-
bars — come into play when creating long-
er documents such as newsletters, reports,
manuals, and books.

FullWrite’s single biggest deficiency is
the lack of complete implementation of
style sheets (such as those in Microsoft
Word and Interleaf Publisher) that are eas-
ily transportable from document to docu-
ment. Since my own word processing
needs include some advanced formatting,
the lack of style sheets spoils the program.
Aside from this omission, FullWrite Profes-
sional pretty much satisfies any wish list,
coming to a halt just short of being a true
page-layout system.

Four Views

And Holy Mackerel, what a feast of fea-
tures! FullWrite packs so much information
on the screen that Ashton-Tate had to diwy
the program up into sections to make it
easier to grasp.

You can view' a document four w'a\ s:
icon view (showing w^here posted notes,
index entries, footnotes, and the like are
embedded), outline view, change-bar view
(showing wiiere changes have been made
in the text), and WYSIWYG view^.

These views are really mode switches
— a concept that’s antithetical to Mac user-
interface purists. But here they work to fo-
cus your attention on details rather than
getting in your way. If you wish to create a
posted note in WYSIWYG view, so be it —
you’ll see the note’s little icon w^hen you
switch to icon view.

I found icon and WYSIWYG view^s

most useful overall. Outlining is best for
document planning, and change-bar view
— in wliich black and gray bars denote
changes made to a document since it was
last saved — is best for group-editing or for
legal documents, where changes must
stand out.

FullWrite Professional gets top grades
for a menu system that simplifies a complex
program. Most menu choices bring up a
dialog box, some of wliich also have their
own pull-down menu. Apparently, nothing
is hidden in this program. When you want
to use a feature or change a setup, you’ll be
able to find it.

There are nits: why is the Doc Setup
choice in the File menu rather than in the
Edit menu? But this is minor stuff. The new
user is more likely to spend time figuring
out wliat to do with this program’s features
than where to find them.

Runarounds

By using a graphic in
a sidebar, FullWrite
can flow text around
a picture or around a
rectangular sidebar
containing a picture.
Additionally, you can
jloat sidebars along
with text or nail them
to a specific spot on a
page. In one-column
style, FullWrite flows
text around one side
of the graphic only.
You control how tight-
ly FullWrite wraps to a
sidebar by setting the
margin markers on
the sidebars ruler.

^ File Edit Moue Notes Format Font Size Style

i Tutorial Sample Doc I

lEl

Kepler-Roth Mannhehn
Project 871138J

INTERNAL DISTRIBUTION ONLY
Last Revision: 8-8-87

Lovi'- Earth Orbit Space Station
Industrial Module:

Project Simmary

JSirKe engineering dravilngs v«ere
completed last March, our KRM
Mechancal Division has identified a
nuTTber of potertlal problems
wth the project.

Recent proposals to modify
the payload bay of the
NASA OTS (Space
Shuttle) and the
Heavy-Lft Launch VeN-
cle (HLLY), whfch is itself
atthe pinnacle of
Its exemplary ca-
reer, have met vvith a good deal of
resistance from the Board cf Drec-
tors, viho have voiced concerns with
the delays arxj cost overruns which are
sure to result The financial repercts-
sions of the variote scenarbs are detailed
In an appendix to this document.

|0|:«|l|iaiCiUi'

Given these consberatfons, the least ex-
pensive’ of our options would seem to be
a retrofitting of the system to make it ccm-
patble wth OTS modfications. It would
also be necessary to scale back the previ-
ously planned computatbnal capabiRy
and elminate at least one process brain
to albw for more rear materials

To the left is a rough dia-
gram the piential
redesign.

Projections indicate
an esthnated development period of 9-
1 2 months to redesign the system.
Although this will cbviously oause a slg-
nficant delay in the completion of the
project, t is the opinbn of this committee
thatthis is both the safestand nrKst frugal
peth.

The reasoning behind this decision is de-
tailed m the following outline.

S

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206 September 1988

Graphics and Sidebars

Two irresistible FiillWrite features are
integrated graphics and sidebars.

Choosing New Picture from the Notes
menu displays a simplified MacDraw-like,
object-oriented editor that you can use to
create boxes and curves — including Illus-
trator-like bezier curves — or to paste in
bitmapped Scrapbook graphics.

FullWrite automatically places the
graphic in your document at the cursor
position. You can also use graphics as vari-
ables — document-wide glossary entries —
for example, as a beginning chapter graph-
ic. Page numbers and mail-merge fields are
also variables. Or you could use a graphic
as a sidebar; FullWrite will wrap text
around one or both sides, conforming
closely to any shape you produce — true
text runaround.

A sidebar is a separate but related sec-
tion of text within a document; a FullWrite
sidebar can be up to a page in length. The
program flows the document s running
text around the sidebar. You can anchor a
sidebar to a particular page or to a particu-
lar position on a page, or float it near a
marker embedded in the running text.
This makes a sidebar great for illustrations
or tables that stay with the referenced text
while you’re adding to or deleting from it.

Alas, FullWrite, like Microsoft Word,
provides no way to sec|uentially number
figures or tables in a document automat-
ically. When your manuscript has 250 illus-
trations and you add a new one in the
middle — or worse, move a figure or text
referring to a figure — it’s tedious to re-
number every illustration and correct all
the cross-references. FullWrite otherwise
handles graphics and sidebars so nicely, it
almost seems as if automatic numbering
was overlooked.

FullWrite can create multicolumn lay-
outs on screen with a click of the mouse. It
repositions graphics and sidebars automat-
ically. Laying out a standard two-column
newsletter is thus a real breeze.

Goodies — and a Caveat or Two

There are more features in FullWrite
than a 900-word review can describe.

Some of the most useful are not necessarily
the flashiest. Autosave is one of the most
useful features in the program. Every five
minutes (or whatever time length you set),
FullWrite saves your file. Currentl>; Word-
Perfect is the only other Macintosh word
processor with this feature.

FullWrite can search for and replace
words, cases, fonts, styles, sizes, and set-
tings for justification. You can change
“Presidential Yacht” to Presidential Yacht
throughout a document, or find the first in-
stance of an underlined word. Functions
for creating tables of contents, bibliogra-

phies, and indexes are also featured. Unlike
Word, which uses embedded dot com-
mands to create indexes, FullWrite uses a
note-making feature. You enter index infor-
mation either by typing directly to an in-
dex note, or by cutting and pasting from
existing text. From my experience with In-
terleaf, entering index information directly
is time-consuming and repetitious; cutting
and pa.siing may be better. But often, index
entries in long documents occur right in
the running text. FullWrite provides no
way to indicate these without cutting and
pasting them to an index note.

FullWrite uses the hard disk as a vir-
tual file; the memory of the computer acts
as a window onto a portion of a document
that can be far longer than would other-

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wise fit. My Mac II with 5 megal*)ytes ran
out of memory at about 50 pages. Creating
a new chapter — more as a memor\ -
management technique than a natural
document division — tells FullWrite how
much document to place in memory at any
one time. As files get longer and spill off
into virtual memory, FullWrite gets slower.
A 90-page, 281 K file in two chapters re-
cjuired a second or two for the cursor to
jump to a new location 30 or 40 pages dis-
tant. So keep chapters short for quickest
respon.se time.

' A ftle Cdll Moue Sotrs Formal Font $lza Slut*

Menus with DBs

Most of h'lillWrite’s menu choices cUsl)lay dialog
boxes, some of which have pull down menus of
their own The Find and Change dialog box can
search for type styles and sizes based on settings
in the main menu, which remains active.

A Final Word

One more caveat: Ashton-Tate sup-
plies a printed warning that FullWrite uses
vertical font spacing information that Font/
DA Mover version 3 5 or earlier did not
necessarily copy. It states that you should
use version 3 6 or later to copy your fonts
again from original .sources. Unfortunately,
although Ashton-Tate supplies a system
disk with FullWrite, it doesn’t supply Font/
DA Mover 3.6. 1 did find an occasional ver-
tical spacing problem that was cured by
re.specifying the line spacing.

FullWrite .stands a good chance of
breaking the almost monopolistic hold that
.\Iicro.sofi Word has on Macintosh word
processing. Its an original .solution that
provides more options and information to
the writer without cluttering the .screen.

All told, FullWrite Profe.ssional is an out-
standing product, but plea.se, Ashion-Tate,
unleash the style sheets ! — Jeffrey Walden

See Where to Buy for contact information.

Background

Communicator

Microphone II

MultiFinder-compatible communications
program. Pros: Script execution and file
transfers occur in background wider Multi-
Finder; enhanced script language; supports ex-
tended keyboards; improved modem support.
Cons: Numerous user-interface and cosmetic
quirks; crashes when printing to LaserWriter
use. Company: Software Ventures. List price:
$29S. Requires: 5J2KE.

t With Microphone II, Software

Ventures has iced an already-rich
cake. The latest MicroPhone builds
on its predecessor’s strengths, which in-
clude a powerful script language for auto-
mating communications se.ssions, strong
file-transfer features, and VT100/VT52 ter-
minal emulation (.see “Grab That Micro-
phone,” Macworld, ]u\\ 1986). And yes.
Microphone II takes advantage of Multi-
Finder, .so time-consuming operations such
as uploading or downloading files can run
in the background.

But MicroPhone II doesn’t have a mo-
nopoly on MultiFinder. Its two chief ri-
vals — Mayes’ SmartCom II and FreeSoft’s
Red Ryder — also support background op-
erations. Whether you choose MicroPhone
II or one of its competitors depends on
your needs — and on how tolerant you are
of MicroPhone iFs deficiencies.

Following the Script

Microphone’s premier edition boasted
a powerful script language for creating au-
tomatic .sequences — series of commands

that perform repetitive actions, such as di-
aling an information service, then transmit-
ting your user name and password. .Micro-
Phone IFs .script language executes .scripts
created with its predecessor and offers an
expanded vocabulary for more communi-
cations control.

The new version’s language includes
.support for string and integer variables
(named storage slots in memory to which
you can a.ssign text or numbers). For exam-
ple, the .script in “Communications Script”
uses a variable named NumTries to track
how many attempts the script makes to
connect with an online service. This sam-
ple script al.so showcases the language's
new expression analyzer, which allows a
script to perform calculations, a.ssign val-
ues to variables, and manipulate text
strings. These improvements open doors
to powerful .scripts that filter out prompts,
menus, and other effluvia from incoming
online text, leaving only the information
you want.

The script language boasts other re-
finements, including statements for con-
trolling cursor position and changing com-
munications settings. A Trace command
executes a .script one line at a time for de-
bugging purposes. However, unlike Red
Ryder 10.3, MicroPhone displays only the
number of the statement currenth* being
executed, not the .statement itself.

You can al.so import and export .scripts
as text-only files, allowing you to reu.se
scripts. And the wonderful Watch Me com-
mand, which translates your online actions
into scripts, remains.

Reach Out and Transfer

MicroPhone II also introduces a first
among general-purpose Mac communica-
tions programs: modem drivers for Hayes-
compatible modems and the Telebit Trail-
blazer. The.se are special scripts that leach
MicroPhone the commands a particular
modem uses to dial, hang up, and handle
the other details of placing a call. If your
modem uses the industry-standard Hayes
AT command set and a single-line phone
connection, the modem drivers will mean
little. But they’re a boon if your Mac is con-
nected to a digital PBX system or to one of
the new warp-speed modems — or to mo-
dems that are “I layes almost-compatible.”

SmartCom II works with Hayes-
compatible modems only; Red Ryder 10.3

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lets you specify modem command se-
quences but doesn’t separate those se-
quences into discrete files. Thus Micro-
Phone II is more versatile when it comes to
working with different types of modems.

In the file-transfer department, Micro-
Phone II adds the Kermit and Ymodem-G
protocols to its binary-transfer options,
which include the Xmodem and Ymodem
protocols. The MacBinary option, which
transfers such Mac-specific file information
as file type, creator, and icon appearance,
is available with all four protocols.

Microphone’s Flaws

Microphone II isn't without faults. Un-
like SmartCom II’s and Red Ryder 10.3 s
window, Microphone’s window can't be
dragged or resized during a file transfer.
That makes it difficult — often impossi-
ble — to work with another program or lo-
cate a given icon on the desktop. Also, I
wish the script editor used pop-up and hi-
erarchical menus so you wouldn’t have to
scroll through a maze of list boxes. (Sea-
soned script writers can bypass the script
editor entirely by using a text editor to type
scripts and then importing them into
Microphone.)

Other flaws are more serious. I en-
countered occasional System crashes, es-
pecially when returning to MicroPhone af-
ter opening and closing other applications
under MultiFinder. And the program
crashed when trying to print to a Laser-
Writer use that was off-line.

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Communications Script

7'his Microphone II script uses a variable named
Num Dies to track how many attempts the script
makes to connect to an online service. If the val-
ue of NumTries reaches 5, MicroPhone II displays
a custom dialog box notifying you that the sign -
on attempt failed. Place a script's name in a
menu or assign it to an on-screeti button, %-key
sequence, or extended keyboard function key

Should You or Shouldn’t You?

Microphone’s script language is more
powerful than SmartCom s, and its modem
drivers make it far more flexible where
hardw'are is concerned. Also, SmartCom II
lacks a Watch Me command equivalent, and
it doesn't support Kermit transfers. But its
design makes SmartCom more approach-
able for the telecommunications new-
comer, and its draggable window's are
more suited to MultiFinder use.

Red Ryder 10.3’s script language com-
pares favorably with Microphone’s, al-
though you must type your scripts using a
text editor. Unlike MicroPhone, however,
Red Ryder lets you manipulate windows
while it's running in the background. Even
when you aren’t using MultiFinder, Red
Ryder 10.3 lets you use desk accessories
during file transfers. If you’re looking for
a pow^erhouse communicator, don’t buy
until you’ve compared MicroPhone 11 and
Red Ryder.

Don’t get me wTong: MicroPhone II
is a very good program. But to make it a
great one, Softw^are Ventures must sweat
the details and improve the aesthetics.

— Jim Heid

See Where to Buy for contact information.

A Quick Mac Fox

FoxBase-^/Mac 1.0

Relational database. Pros: Fast, flexible
database with programming facilities; runs PC
dBase applications. Cons: Compatibility with
dBase forces some compromises. Company: Fox
Software. List price: S395. Requires: Mac Plus:
hard disk recommended.

There is considerable incentive to
make dBase in-house applications
accessible to Mac users. McMax
and dBase Mac, for example, attempt to do
this in quite different styles. But since the
real dBase is a text-based program driven
by a somew hat terse command language,
making a dBase-compatible program seem
like a real Macintosh product requires
great ingenuity in dealing with program-
ming compromLses.

FoxBase+/Mac manages to open a
window' to the PC world and still provide a
viable Mac database. Compromises, where
they occur, are minimally inconvenient,
and the product outperforms more famil-
iar .Mac databa.se programs (Omnis 3 Plus,

Looking In on the Fox

The View window, using a somewhat odd, clock-
like tableau for displaying open data files and
their links, is the starting point for most FoxBase
work. The Database and Record menus alone of-
fer enough functions to cover typical operations
other than new database design.

Double Helix II, 4th Dimension) on most
raw^ speed benchmarks. Fox Softw^are has
become a major contender in MS-DOS and
UNIX environments, and FoxBase+/Mac
deserves serious consideration as both a
stand-alone database product and a con-
nectivity solution. Version 1.0 is the first
release in a product line slated to include
a multiuser networked version (linking
PCs and Macs) and a run-time module
later this year.

Fox Basics

The central feature of the FoxBase
screen is the View window (see “Looking
In on the Fox’’). As database files are
opened, they are represented in a set of
ten circles. If the data files are relationally
linked, an arrow' connects them; if they are
indexed, they display little hand-pointers.
The Database and Record menus offer
most of the functions you need for record
management and reporting, and there is a
special set of buttons in the low'er-left cor-
ner of the View' w'indow' for the most com-
mon operations (Setup, Brow'se, Locate,
and Close). Clicking Brow'se w'hen one of
the data files is grayed out opens a table
view' of that file for simple inspection, addi-
tion, and deletion of records. Correspond-
ing to the dBase format, there are separate
file types for data, programs, indexes, and
reports.

Besides standard text-based fields,
FoxBase supports picture fields; long, pop-
up memo fields; and complex computed
fields. Data inpui/output can be enhanced
with a special Say/Get command set that al-
low^s creation of custom entry and display

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210 September 1988

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screens (featuring the usual array of radio
buttons, check boxes, and other fomiliar
Mac props), with fields positioned aesthet-
ically on the screen. Another set of com-
mands creates menus within a database ap-
plication. As do most newer applications,
FoxBase supports full control over color
display. But data input/output and menu
programming is a chore compared to the
same task in a Mac-only database like Dou-
ble Helix II. FoxBase really needs a screen
generator — Fox knows this and promises
one in the next release. (For this review I
looked at a beta version with a full palette
of forms-generation tools.) Fox also prom-
ises an improved reporting facility — the
current version is primitive and PClike.

As you create, modify, and manipulate
a database, all your instructions are record-
ed in a Command window, which translates
your menu commands into dBase com-
mand language. Alternatively, you can clear
this window, program commands directly,
and choose Do from the Program menu.
For instance, if you drag a pointer from one
data file to another in the View window,
you create a relation (to be defined in a dia-
log box) between the files. You can also
type SET RELATION TO [expression in terms of fields
in first database] INTO [second database]. The
Command window records the sequence
of your actions using dBase programming

instructions; this creates a bridge from the
Macintosh version of FoxBase to the PC
version — the file in the Command window
can be edited and compared to a PC
command sequence.

The PC Connection

As one might expect, FoxBase+/Mac
excels at porting over programs from the
wrong side of the rainbow. I took a suite
of 30 sample databases and program files
over from the PC with no glitches, and the
developers I surveyed expressed high
praise for the PC-to-Mac portability of Fox-
Base/dBase programs. The developers, in
general, are taking accounting and other
large database packages over from PC code
and adding Mac features (graphics and
menus) to generate programs with an ac-
ceptable Mac interface.

Porting doesn’t work the other way
(Mac to PCX except for relentlessly austere
programs that avoid all Mac-specific fea-
tures. It would be possible to write a simple
PC application in FoxBase +/Mac, but if
your time and sanity are worth anything
you w'ould prefer to code PC work on a PC.
In an office setting, however, the smooth
and wide one-way street for driving PC data

and program files into the Macintosh is one
of FoxBase s attractions. (The program,
however, does not support import/export
facilities to non-dBase files such as WKS
and SYLK.)

Fast Fox

FoxBase is one of the largest current
Mac applications (544K), but it manages to
get out of its own way. On an SE, FoxBase
can sort a 5000-record database (six fields,
80 characters total) on a given field in 46
seconds. Comparable numbers are 1 min-
ute, 20 seconds for Omnis 3 Plus (version
3.24) and nearly 15 minutes for 4th Dimen-
sion. Note, too, that sorting and indexing
tend to be 1/O-bound operations — in this
case limited by Apple’s less-than-awesome
20-megabyte hard disk performance. Fox-
Base, however, puts as much data as pos-
sible into memory, so with an extra 1MB
of RAM the program can sort a 1MB file in
8 seconds or less.

Appending 5000 records to this sam-
ple database takes 38 seconds, compared
to 19 minutes for Omnis and over 3 hours
for 4th Dimension. The only popular Mac
relational database competitive with this
blazing speed is McMax, a more limited
product (FoxBase is still faster). Other
numbers for prospective users concern ca-
pacities. FoxBase can handle up to a billion
records (that is, it’s limited by disk space)
per file, with 128 fields per record and 254
characters per field.

A True Competitor

Two features make FoxBase serious
competition for high-end packages such as
Omnis, 4th Dimension, and Helix. First,
dBase’s command language is the best-
documented programming language on
earth — whereas only a handful of books
are available on programming in Omnis or
Helix, dBase is supported by hundreds of
books, videotapes, and learning aids. Sec-
ond, FoxBase offers many more features
than dBase-compatible McMax and main-
tains impressive speed advantages over
other powerful relational databases.

FoxBase+/Mac thus gets high marks
in performance and dBase compatibility,
and already provides facilities — albeit
sometimes awkwardly — for generating
real Mac applications. If Fox does a compa-
rably solid job on the next round of exten-
sions, this program will be a very tough
competitor for the older generation of Mac
databases . — Charles Setter

See Where to Buy for contact information.

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PageMaker:
Staying Ahead

PageMaker J. 0

Page-layout software. Pros: Effective auto-
matic text-flow feature; well-implemented style
sheets; easy method for running text around ir-
regular graphics; sophisticated spot-color capa-
bility. Cons: Imprecise typographic control for
a state-of-the-art DTP program; no search-and-
replace feature; no spelling checker; still lacks
important features for lengthy documents.
Company: Aldus Corporation. List price:
$595. (Upgrade: $15 if version 2.0 purchased af-
ter November 2, 1987; $90 if purchased earlier. )
Requires: 1MB, hard disk.

In PageMaker 3 0, Aldus has
1 managed to shore up the most
conspicuous weaknesses of the
league-leading Macintosh desktop publish-
ing package s earlier releases, while pre-
serving all the familiar and convenient
user-interface characteristics that so many
people like.

To a large degree, version 3.0 repre-
sents a catch-up product: with the excep-
tion of an advanced system for defining
and applying spot color, there is little here
not already offered by the competition. In
fact, some significant deficiencies persist
from previous versions. Still, PageMaker
3.0 is a solid product and one of the top
desktop publishing contenders.

PageMaker was always a big program,
but suddenly it’s gigantic — now requiring a
full 3.3 megabytes of hard disk space if you
install the entire package, including the
help files and utilities. In the process of
bulking up, PageMaker has lost the ability
to run on a floppy disk system, but that
should improve its performance reputa-
tion — it has been unbearably slow when
running from floppies. PageMaker 3.0
moves along at an acceptable pace on
a hard disk.

A Way with Words

With a new autoflow text-placement
feature, this release makes PageMaker eas-
ier to use with long documents. The pro-
gram can now flow text automatically
through consecutive columns on existing
pages and can create new pages based on a
user-created master as needed until an en-
tire text file of almost any length has been
placed. There’s also a new semiautomatic
text-flow mode that speeds the process of

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The Edit Color dialog
box shows one of Page-
Maker 3.0's three col-
or-mixing models. On
a color monitor, the
box at the right shous
the color you 're creat-
ing as you change the
percentages of compo
nent hues and other
color characteristics.

breaking a text file into odd-size blocks.
Unlike most other Mac desktop publishing
programs, however, PageMaker still offers
no easy way to establish or break text-flow
links between discrete blocks randomly.

If you do want to create books or
other long documents, be forewarned that
PageMaker falls short in other ways. The
program lacks any special amenities for
building a mega-document from multiple
files, and it won’t prepare indexes or tables
of contents, even for individual files. You’re
also on your own when it comes to foot-
noting or endnoting.

However, PageMaker 3.0 can now flow
text around irregular graphics, a talent that
has become absolutely de rigueur in to-
day’s desktop publishing market. Page-
Maker’s implementation of this feature is
the most flexible and the easiest to use that
I’ve seen — you simply draw a boundary
around the graphic, defining any shape you
like (see “Automatic Text Flow*’’).

PageMaker 3 0 now offers style sheets,
truly a page-makeup must. You can define
and name any number of reuseable styles,
each consisting of a comprehensive array
of textual characteristics (type style, font
selection, tab settings, and so forth) that
take effect en masse when you apply the
style to a paragraph. Bolstering its strength
as a layout engine for text created in other
programs, PageMaker recognizes style as-
signments you make in a word processor,
either with that program’s own style sheet
feature, or by typing in style names at the
beginning of any paragraph. PageMaker
even imports style definitions from Word.
Within PageMaker, you can change para-
graph formats simply by selecting the de-
sired style from a scrolling window’ that
you can leave on the screen (unfortunately,
you can’t assign frequently used styles to
keyboard shortcuts).

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The dotted line sur-
rounding the mouse's
picture is a boundary
for automatic text
flow. It was defined by
creating the larger
dots, which serve as
handles for the bound-
ary, and then moving
them freehand to the
desired location. The
style sheet ivmdow en-
ables you to apply pre-
determined styles to
paragraphs.

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Carrying the style sheet idea a step
further, PageMaker now lets you create
templates, convenient reuseable docu-
ments that include predefined master
pages and style sheets. Twent\' effective
templates covering many common applica-
tions — brochures, newsletters, and the
like — come with the program.

These major enhancements correct
the most glaring text-related weaknesses of
its predecessors, but PageMaker 3.0 still
scrimps on details that many people will
consider important. If your documents run
to more than a page or two, you’ll quickly
come to rue the omission of a search-and-
replace capability. The lack of a spelling
checker is less critical, but nonetheless a
nuisance. And the program’s typographic
controls are still imprecise, compared to
competitors like XPress. In PageMaker, for
example, the smallest leading increment is
half a point; kerning increments are rela-
tive to font size, and can’t be specified nu-
merically. You’re restricted to whole-num-
ber font sizes between 4 and 127 points.

Color Collage

On the graphics side, PageMaker 3-0
sports two major new features: a versatile
spot-color capability, and an Image Control
dialog box for altering the shading, con-
trast, and other characteristics of imported

graphics. You can apply a single color to
any object (text or graphics element) in a
document from a scrolling window of col-
or choices, just as you would a text style.
You can alter these colors or create new
color definitions from scratch, using one
of four common color models, including
the cyan, magenta, yellow, black (CMYK)
model used in commercial process color
printing, and the Apple color wheel.

The options in the Image Control dia-
log provide much-needed control over the
appearance of bitmapped graphics. Not
only can you handle mundane graphics
chores — like lightening an overly dense
picture or matching the resolution of a
scanned image to your printer — you can
also add great special effects to scanned
graphics.

PageMaker 3.0 remains an elegant, en-
joyable piece of software, and its new text
and graphics talents position it as a hot
contender among the best Mac desktop
publishing programs. Competing products
outdo PageMaker in some feature areas,
but version 3.0’s enhancements, and its
reasonable upgrade price, will probably
end the temptation of already satisfied
PageMaker users to look elsewhere.

— Steve Cummings

See Where to Buy for contact information.

What, No Icons?

MPW Shell 2.0.2

Professional software development system.
Pros: The most sophisticated and complete de-
velopment package available for the Macintosh.
Cons: Traditional programming environment
requires that you remember many commands.
Documentation is intelligible only to experi-
enced programmers. Company: Apple Program-
mer's and Developer's Association (A PDA). List
price: MPW 2.0 (Shell) S200, MPW C Si 25, MPW
Pascal $125. Available only through APDA.
Requires: 1MB, harddisk.

Imagine the Macintosh without

icons. Without dialog boxes. With-
out the friendly interface we know
and love. Imagine a Macintosh with com-
mand lines and parameter lists like “link -w-
-t APPL -c ’????’ Lobo.c.o {CLIBRARIES} In-
terface.o — ” A nightmare? No, it’s the Mac-
intosh Programmer’s Workshop (MPW),
a comprehensive and powerful program-
ming environment for the Macintosh,
created and used by the programmers
at Apple.

MPW is a collection of programming
tools that run under the Shell, an environ-
ment that bears an uncanny resemblance
to UNIX. The Shell provides UNIX-like fea-
tures such as pipes, by which the output of
one program is directly passed to the next
program. The many programming tools in-
clude an assembler, a linker, a resource ed-
itor, a resource compiler and decompiler,
debugging tools, performance measure-
ment tools, and a host of other aids.

Now What?

Running MPW for the first time is in-
timidating. You face an empty window, a
somewiiat familiar menu bar with File,

Edit, and Find menus, and that nagging
question: “Now^ what?” Unfortunately, the
MPW manuals don’t provide much of a tu-
torial on using the system. All two pounds
of documentation are wTitten in nearly
straight program mer-ese, which is fine
once you get used to the system. But plan
to spend a few hours getting acquainted
with it before you try writing any programs.

When you’ve passed the initial bar-
riers, MPW provides some useful help facil-
ities. For instance, Commando helps you

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master the often cumbersome MPW com-
mands. When you invoke Commando with
the name of a command, MPW presents an
elaborate dialog box that helps you prepare
all the parameters expected b\' that com-
mand (see “Commando"). And the Build
menu helps you build script files that auto-
matically compile and link your programs.

Scripts, Anyone?

There are more than one hundred
commands in the Shell command language
to handle everything from program devel-
opment to file management to disk naviga-
tion. In fact, you might think of the Shell as
a command-oriented version of the Finder.
But while you are limited in what you can
do from the Finder, you can program the
Shell using the command language and
also by creating script files.

A script file is simply a program for the
Shell written in the Shell command lan-
guage. You can, for example, build a script
that compiles, links, and tests a program
that \^ou are developing. Or you can build
one that creates a new menu, cleans up
your disk, and performs a half dozen other
functions. “Writing a Script" shows an ex-
ample of a script file that MPW uses to cre-
ate and display one of its own menus.

I Want to Be a Programmer

Of course, the reason that MPW exists
is so that you can write programs. To this
end, it supports numerous program devel-
opment tools. With MPW, you can write a
program, compile or assemble it, link it
with a vast array of libraries, watch it as it
runs with a debugger, peer at its disas-
sembled innards, and find out where it
spends most of its time. You can build
stand-alone applications and desk accesso-
ries, or your own personal MPW tools. You
can create resources such as menus, dialog

' i rile Edit Find Mark lUIndoui Directory Build

hi order to help you master MPW's command
languaj^e, the program includes Commando — a
facility that aids you in preparing the parameters
expected by a command. The dialog box is elabo-
rate and assumes at least a basic knowledge of
programming.

boxes, and icons using the resource editor
and compiler, and combine them with your
program. In short, you can do everything
you need to do in order to create a Macin-
tosh program.

The MPW program editor is indis-
tinguishable from the main MPW Work-
sheet window. In fact, when youVe writing
a program, you haven’t left MPW at all. If
you w ant to, you can execute MPW com-
mands from a wandow in which you’re
editing a program. Of course, if you leave
those commands in the file when you
compile it, the compiler will treat them
as errors.

The MPW editor appears to be a
simple Macintosh program editor. You can
do the usual things, like Copy, Cut, Paste,
Find, and set tabs. Since it’s not a word pro-
cessing program like MacWrite, \'ou can se-
lect only a single font for the entire win-
dow. Most of the common functions are
provided in Edit and Find menus, but you
can also enter editing commands from the

'Writing a Script

Scripts are programs
for the MPW Shell writ-
ten in the Shell com-
mand language.
Scripts are highly rer-
satile — you can build
them, for example, to
compile, link, and test
a program or to clean
up your disk. MPW
uses this script to cre-
ate and display one of
its own menus.

^ ^ File Edit Find Mark Lilindoui Directory Build

keyboard. For example, the command
Undo Lobo.c undoes the last editing func-
tion that was done in the window Lobo.c.

MPW includes a pow^erful macro as-
sembler that can generate code for the
M68000, 68020, 68851, and 68881 proces-
sors. You can also purchase the Pascal or C
compilers separately. If you plan to do an\^
Macintosh programming with MPW, you
should arm yourself w ith the Inside Mac-
intosh series published by Addison-Wesley,
and a good set of manuals for the language
of your choice. If you plan to use the as-
sembler, you should get the microproces-
sor programming books published by
Motorola.

As far as editing and compiling go,
MPW isn’t much different from any other
development system. The real powder
shows up in the post-compile stages, dur-
ing linking, debugging, and performance
optimization. With some development sys-
tems, once the compiler or assembler is
done, N’our program is ready to run. Most
programs that you compile under MPW,
however, are incomplete — they call sub-
routines that are held in library files, and
w'hich must be linked to your program be-
fore it can run. Many of the run-time func-
tions, for example, are held in a library. You
can also create your own libraries of fre-
quently used subroutines.

The final stages of program develop-
ment in MPW involve debugging and opti-
mizing. Very few'substantial programs run
on the first try. MPW’s debugger, MacsBug,
takes control when your program loses it,
letting you monitor your program’s activity
at the machine level. The performance
tools help you see what your program is
doing, giving you a variety of reports to
help you locate slow or inefficient sections.

For Professionals Only

MPW is definitely a powerful and com-
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tools. With its integrated editor, assembler,
debugger, performance optimizers, help,
and additional Pascal and C compilers, it
has nearly everything a programmer could
ask for. But the price for such power is
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plans to spend a lot of time building appli-
cations. — Ke?i Takara

See Where to Buy for contact information.

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45 Marvelous MBs

Data Pak

45MB removable bard disk. Pros: Compact
and fast; one cartridge holds up to ten password-
protected partitions; many thoughtful design
touches. Cons: System hangs if cartridge is re-
moved. Company: Mass Micro Systems. List
price: One-cartridge drive $1775; two-cartridge
drive $2995- Requires: 1 MB.

HyperCard stacks, downloadable
fonts, complex applications, and
swelling System folders are giving
Macs a voracious appetite for disk space.
While many 20-megabyte hard disks are
still available, units offering 30 or 40 mega-
bytes ha\e become commonplace.

An even better weapon against “disk
full” errors is a removable drive such as
Mass Micro Systems Data Pak. The stan-
dard Data Pak houses one 45MB removable
hard disk cartridge; for insatiable sector-
swallow^ers, models holding either two car-
tridges or one cartridge and a 40MB, 80MB,
or 120 MB fixed hard disk are also available.

There s a lot to like in a Data Pak. It
fits under a Plus or an SE and — thanks.
Mass Micro — tilts your Mac slightly. You
can change Data Pak’s SCSI address with a
convenient back-panel switch; the panel
also includes two spare power outlets con-
trolled by the Data Pak’s power switch. The
drive doesn’t whisper, but it’s quieter than
most hard disks — my SE outwhines it. And
it includes a utility that lets you divide it
into as many as ten partitions, which you
can selectively mount and unmount.

The Data Pak is also fast. Its remov-
able cartridge contains a single hard disk
platter that offers performance comparable
to that of fixed hard disks. In my tests the
Data Pak was considerably faster than a Ber-
ing Totem drive, whose 20MB cartridge is
based on slower, flexible-disk Bernoulli
technology. My SE started up from the Data
Pak in 11 seconds, and from the Totem drive
in 18. The Data Pak duplicated a 700K file in
9 seconds, the Totem drive in 17. The Data
Pak saved a 135K Microsoft Word document
in 47 seconds; the Totem drive took 52.

Next, I put the Data Pak through a tor-
ture test. Any removable cartridge that can
hold roughly 15,000 single-spaced pages of
text must be able to withstand occasional
mistreatment. Because of their flexible-
media design, Bernoulli-based cartridges
keep stiff upper lips against abuse. Hard
disk platters are more sensitive, but the
Data Pak’s cartridge withstood being
dropped — even thrown — to a carpeted
floor. Some months ago, I stood on a re-
movable disk cartridge from Century
Data’s tank-tough PhD drive (see Reviews,
Macworld, May 1988). I wanted to do the
same with a Data Pak cartridge, but its plas-
tic case groaned for mercy, and 1 backed
off. The Data Pak can withstand everyday
bumps and jolts, but it lacks the industrial-
strength toughness of Century Data’s me-
dia. Considering that the PhD costs a few
grand more, the difference isn’t surprising.

The Data Pak doesn’t include custom
backup software, but it works with Apple’s
HD Backup and with generic backup pro-
grams such as SuperMac’s DiskFit. The util-
ity included with the drive lets you format,
test, and partition cartridges. You can spec-
ify the size of a partition and assign it a
password to protect against pillaging. Un-
fortunately, you can’t resize a partition lat-
er; instead, you must back up the partition,
delete it, and create a new one.

Data Pak 's 45MB removable hard disk.

Most hard disks that allow partitioning
supply a desk accessory for mounting and
unmounting partitions. With the Data Pak,
you access partitions using the Chooser
desk accessory. That’s a nice touch: it log-
ically keeps your systerh-related options in
one place, and it doesn’t eat up one of your
System file’s 15 desk accessory slots.

The Data Pak is so well executed that
I found only one thing to complain about:
you can eject the cartridge without the
Mac’s knowing it. Some removable drives
know when their media is AWOL and dis-
play a “please insert disk” message; or,
they simply won't let you remove the car-
tridge when the Mac is in use. The Data
Pak lacks such smarts. Remove the car-
tridge and then try to access it, and your
Mac will crash.

But that’s a minor flaw, which only the
careless will encounter. The Data Pak is a
first-rate drive that I recommend without
hesitation. — Jim Heid

See Where to Buy for contact information.

Courseware to Go

Course of Action 1.0

The Best Course of Action 1.0

Courseware authoring systems. Pros:

Icon-based language; interactive debugging;
powerful calculation capabilities. Cons: High
price; limited drawing tools; special student disks
needed for courseware distribution. Company:
Authorware. List price: Course of Action $695;
The Best Course of Action $2500. Requires: Mac
Plus; hard disk recommended.

Ask a Macintosh consultant to rec-
ommend a system for writing in-
structional programs, and chances
are it will be I hperCard. But HyperCard
has major limitations as a course-authoring
language, especially when it comes to re-
sponse processing and animation. So what
other choices are there? Course Builder,
from TeleRobotics International, was the
first courseware package for the Mac (see
Reviews, Macworld, December 1987).

Now, Authorware has come up with Course
of Action.

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The Best Course?

In its basic configuration, Course of
Action includes most of the tools needed
in a fully functional authoring system, but
it lacks advanced animation, sound, and in-
teractive videodisk capabilities. The deluxe
version, called The Best Course of Action,
adds the Impulse sound digitizer and soft-
ware, a videodisk driver, and a set of ad-
vanced animation tools.

Like Course Builder, Course of Action
is an icon-based language; each icon repre-
sents some sort of program action, such as
displaying text or graphics, accepting a re-
sponse, or performing a calculation. You
add icons to a course by dragging them
from the tool palette to the course design
window, where they snap into place along
a line that represents the course flow (see
“Snap Set-Up”). Course of Action follows
the standard Macintosh guidelines for se-
lecting, cutting, and pasting icons. As the
course grows, you can group any number
of icons together and paste them into a sin-
gle Map icon to keep things manageable. If
you’re clever about naming icons as you
go, the design window becomes a self-
documenting flowchart.

Capable Icons

Course of Action’s basic repertoire
includes displaying and erasing text and
graphics, simple animation, pausing,
branching, answer processing, and calcula-
tion. The Display function is the one you’re
likely to use most often. Double-clicking
on an icon representing one of these func-
tions opens the presentation window,
where all the action takes place when a
course runs.

Using a set of MacDraw-like tools, you
can enter text or graphics into the presen-
tation window. Bitmapped graphics must
be imported via the Clipboard, and the
current version doesn’t handle gra\' scale
or color.

You use the Animation icon to move
objects in the presentation window. Course
of Action’s limited animation capabilities
let you choose only a starting and an end-
ing position for an object’s motion. The
Best Course of Action adds powerful func-
tions that are indispensable for simula-
tions; for example, you can specify a pre-
cise path for an object to follow or link an
object’s motion to the value of one or more
variables. The advanced animation package

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Snap Set-Up

Icons from Course of Action's repertoire are
added to a course by dragging them to the
course design wmdow, where they snap into
place. Interaction with the student takes place
in the partially hidden presentation window.

includes an application for creating simple
movies like a spinning beach ball. (The
Movie Editor is actually a repackaged form
of Ann Arbor Softworks’ old Animation
Toolkit — it’s definitely no competition for
VideoWorks, but it’s still serviceable.)

The Best Course of Action also has
impressive sound capabilities. Digitized
sounds can be set to play as many times
as needed, at any playback speed. The
Impulse sound digitizer and Soundwave
software make recording and editing
sounds easy.

Response procevssing is another strong
point. Text input, mouse clicks, menu se-
lections, and push buttons are all accept-
able as answ'ers, and you can mix any num-
ber of them in a single question. Course of
Action also lets you determine if a student
has moved a graphic in the presentation
window to a specified area, which comes
in handy in exercises where the student
has to assemble a piece of apparatus (say,
an automobile engine) by dragging its
component parts to their correct locations.

Course of Action also excels in its cal-
culation capabilities. The extensive library
of variables and functions should plea.se
even die-hard programmers. If you’re not
satisfied, you can make up your own vari-
ables and write customized external func-
tions in Pascal or C. Although not many au-

thors are likely to use all of the variables
and functions, it’s nice to have them avail-
able for complex tasks like simulation.

Courseware Made Easy?

All in all, I found Authorware’s prod-
ucts more flexible than Course Builder.
Flexibility is essential since course author-
ing and execution are intimately tied to-
gether and you need to jump back and
forth betw^een the course design and pre-
sentation windows as you go. In fact, Au-
thorware suggests that you program a
course by experimenting as much as pos-
sible. The documentation is among the
best I’ve seen for any type of software,
guiding you through all the steps with
plenty of examples. Still, creating effective
instructional software isn’t an easy process
— expect many hours of hard work for ev-
ery hour of courseware.

Course of Action’s biggest drawback is
the manner in which courses are distrib-
uted to students. In the current implemen-
tation, courses have to be individually
packaged on proprietary, copy-protected
floppy disks. (They’re available from Au-
thorw'are at $65 for ten disks.) The trouble
with this system is that there’s no easy way
to accommodate courseware that doesn’t
fit on one floppy — a not unlikely prospect
if a course contains a lot of graphics. Au-
thorware is now working on ways to run
courseware from a network, a setup I think
most users would prefer.

Another major problem is that $695
is a lot of money for just the basic version.
And at $2500, The Best Course of Action
is up in the price stratosphere usually re-
serv^ed for hardware vendors. To be fair, Au-
thorware does offer major discounts to ed-
ucational institutions (bringing the prices
down to $495 and $1750 for the basic and
advanced versions, respectively), and addi-
tional price cuts are available for volume
purchases. Still not exactly a bargain,
though.

There’s no doubt that The Best Course
of Action is the most capable course
authoring package available for the Mac,
if you can live with the cost and Author-
w’are’s inconvenient software-distribution
scheme. If, however, you can get by with-
out advanced animation, sound, and video-
disks, Course of Action is a good second
choice . — Franklin Tessler

See Where to Buy for contact information.

222 September 1988

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Teaching a New
Dog Old Tricks

SoftPC 1.2 (standard version)

IBM PC XT emulator software for the Mac //
and SE ( with accelerator card ). Pros:

Rims most popular MS DOS prof^rams: utilizes
the mouse when the PC application allows one;
compatible with Mult Winder; excellent installa-
tion ffuide. Cons: Drive and load time is slower
than a PCs; requires access to a V/4-inch disk
drive; knowledge of MS-DOS commands re-
quired. Company: Insignia Solutions. List
price: $595. Requires: Mac 1 1 with 4MB of RAM
(small version available for Mac II andSE with
accelerator card and 2MB of RAM); 3MB hard
disk space: System 4.3 and Finder 6.0; Apple 5'/-t-
inch PC drive or customized cable to connect to
a yeaV' PC in order to load MS-DOS software.

laai

If you ever need to explain ease of
use to someone, put a Mac next to
!■ a PC. Better yet, open the SoftPC

window on your Mac II and compare soft-
ware side-b\’-side.

You can do this with Insignia Solu-
tion’s SoftPC 8086 all-software emulator.
SoftPC has no hardware component; there
is no add-in hoard to take up a NuBus slot.
Yet SoftPC successfully emulates an MS-
DOS-based, IBM PC-compatible comput-
er complete with CGA (Color Graphics
Adapter, 640 by 200 resolution), Microsoft
Bus mouse, two serial ports and one paral-
lel port, support for one floppy and two
virtual hard disks, and a “drive” designator
that giv^es access to the Mac file system.

During an installation process that
takes all of 15 seconds, SoftPC creates on
disk a 1-m^gabyte Macintosh file that it
uses as its C-drive hard disk. You can create
another virtual PC hard disk on your Mac-
intosh hard disk from 1MB to 32MB (the
upper limit of MS-DOS).

And it all works — pretty well, an\wa\’.
Certainly, SoftPC provides acceptable per-
formance for the occasional uses that a Mac
II owner might have for it, such as running
an MS-DOS vertical-market business pack-
age, for example.

Roll Over!

Although some alleged PC compati-
bles run only software that is well-behaved
under MS-DOS, Insignia claims to emulate

a PC “down to the chip level,” so that ill-
behaved software feels right at home. In-
signia’s list of about 75 popular PC applica-
tions it has “tested” includes Lotus’s 1-2-3,
Microsoft’s Flight Simulator, and “terminate
and stay resident” programs such as Bor-
land’s Sidekick, which act as DAs of a sort.

My compatibility test consisted of a
vile brew of 1-2-3 version 2.01 and a new’
1-2-3 project-management add-in called
ProjectCalc, w^hich plays hopscotch with
the 8086’s segment registers — cramming
more than 340K of programming into a
space that Lotus originally intended for 64K
of code. SoftPC handled all this internal
prodding and poking and ran flawlessly.

A New Hanl Disk

SoftPC emulates a hard disk. — with a complete
directory system — in a single Macintosh file. It
automatically creates this virtual 5MB hard disk
to contain MS-DOS and other system files when
you install it.

Play Dead!

The ubiquitous Norton Utilities pack-
age rates SoftPC at 1.3 times the speed of a
standard IBM PC. That may be the case for
internal math calculations or text opera-
tions, but for file loading or copying,
spreadsheet recalculations, and especially
graphics, SoftPC runs at about 60 percent
the speed of a PC. For example, to load a
9443-byte worksheet file from drive A into
1-2-3 and recalculate it on the PC took 27.5
seconds. To do the same with SoftPC (using
an Apple 5’/^-inch PC floppy) took more
than 45 seconds. This leisurely pace may
be irritating if you're used to working at
the 16-MHz speed of the Mac II.

That you’re dealing with a software
emulation is especially apparent with on-
screen graphics. Text response on screen
was very good, but graphics response
using SoftPC was unquestionably slower
than on a comparably equipped IBM PC.

Getting your MS-DOS software into
SoftPC is another issue that should be con-
sidered, because the Mac II’s 3‘/2-inch flop-
py drives can’t read or write IBM’s 3*/i-inch
format (no fault of SoftPC here). You have
three choices: use Apple’s 5‘/»-inch, PC-
format floppy drive; rig a serial cable be-
tween your Mac and a bona fide PC to use
the PC's floppy drive; or key in any pro-
gram yourself You should count on having
a 5‘/^-inch floppy available somehow^ w hen

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running SoftPC. (Many MS-DOS programs
use a "key disk” system of copy protection.)

SoftPC supports PostScript printers as
such only when the particular PC applica-
tion does. Otherwise, it pretends whatever
printer n'ou have is an Epson FX-80.

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If you plan to do daily production
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See Where to Buy for contact information.

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Backups

Redux 1.0

Backup program. Pros: Flexible file filtering:
.simple incremental backups: backs up to all
t ypes of II FS volumes. Cons: No alert if wrong
disk is inserted: can't rename backup disks:
backup disks are useless if directoty is damaged.
Company: Microseeds Publishing. List price:
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Backing up a hard disk is like
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waste until you need it. Backup
programs make the chore easier and faster.
Even more important. the\' let you back up
hies that wouldn’t ordinarily ht on an 800K
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backups fun.

Simple Backups

Redux begins by asking you to select
a source volume (the drive you’re backing
up from ) and a target volume (the drive
N'ouVe writing to). Once Redux knows the
target’s capacity, it gives you an estimate of
the number of volumes the backup will
take. If all your hies can ht on one target
volume, Redux lets you copy them in a
Finder- readable format; otherwise, Redux

saves them in a special format that only Re-
dux understands. Any type of HFS-compat-
ible storage device can serve as a target,
including floppy drives, removable media,
tape units, and hard disks.

The hrst time you back up a hard disk
to floppies, Redux prompts you to insert
disks until it has copied all the hies. If
you’re interrupted, you can pick up later
where you left off. Although Redux runs
under MultiFinder, this may be more trou-
ble than it’s worth — for example, Microsoft
Word’s response time dropped noticeably
with Redux running in the background. Re-
storing a hard drive is as simple as feeding
in backup disks when Redux prompts you.

Power Backups

What if you don't want to back up
those letters to Mom? No problem — Redux
provides an extensive set of hle-hltering
tools. Working from a list of all the hies on
a hard disk, you can mark any hie or folder
for backup (see "Checking the List”). \bu
can automatically include or exclude hies
according to almost any criteria, including
name, modiheation date, and hie type. As
you rehne the backup list, Redux writes a
script in a simple procedural language: you
can modify that script or write your own by
following the rules of syntax described in
the manual. Because Redux saves the script
on the hrst target disk, you don’t have to re-
create it each time you do a backup.

Some programs force you to back up
all the hies on a hard disk even if only one
has changed since the last backup. More
sophisticated applications provide for in-
cremental backups, which save only hies
that have been modified. Unfortunately, the
inventory of backup disks grows larger

File Edit Preferences Check/Uncheck Special

with every session if you don’t reuse old
disks. Redux uses existing backup disks
whenever it can, keeping the set to a man-
ageable size. In fact, incremental backups
are so easy that you're likely to do them
more often than you might otherwise.

Redux has a few minor problems. If
you insert the wrong backup disk, Redux
doesn't alert you, it just ignores the disk.
Also, you can’t change the default name for
backup disks, an option that would aid
people who keep multiple backup sets.
There’s one other, potentially more seri-
ous, problem: the first target disk contains
the only copy of the backup directory — if
it’s lost or damaged, the entire backup set
is useless.

In a speed comparison with other
popular programs (see Reviews, March
1988), both Redux and HFS Backup 2.02
took 19 minutes to back up 10 megab\'tes
onto floppies. With write verification
turned on, the same backup took Fastback
1.02 only 14 minutes (a 26 percent savings),
but it used two more floppies. Restoring
the same 10MB took all three programs
about 8 minutes. Redux consistently re-
jected damaged disks without missing
a beat.

Because of the transparent way Redux
handles incremental bacl^ps. I’d choose it
over Fastback even though Redux is slower.
And because of its sophisticated file-filter-
ing functions, I also prefer Redux to Super-
Mac’s DiskFit. Does Redux really make
backups fun? Well, not really. (1 said almost,
remember?) But it’s an excellent choice for
backing up to any type of storage device.

— Franklin Tessler

See Where to Buy for contact information.

Checking the List

Redux checks folders
and files targeted for
backup, but saves only
the ones that have
changed since the last
backup session. Re-
dux's powerful filter
controls let you add
or delete Jiles that meet
specific criteria from
the backup roster.

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Power the Hard
Way

LaserPaint Color II

Color €lraivin^, painlitig, page-layout,
scanning, and separation program. Pros:
Includes virtually every graphics tool you need;
does color separations; bandies TIFF and Post-
Script Jiles: supports Pantone color matching;
built-in scanning module; customizable icons
and palettes. Cons: Interface still has problems;
Undo doesn't work in most situations; key -disk
copy protect ioti ( unprotected disk available to
registered owners for an extra $25). Company:
LaserWare. List price: $595. Requires: Mac II;
256-color card; 5MB recommended; (Sharp
JX-450 or I lowtek scanner; 24-bit color card rec-
ommended for professional system ).

When Macworld looked at the
monochrome version of Laser-
^ Paint (see Reviews, Macworld,
September 1987), we concluded that LavSer-
Paint was powerful but almost unusable
due to its strange interface. LaserPaint’s
newest incarnation, Color II, is even more
powerful, and some of the more distressing
interface problems have been alleviated.
LaserPaint Color II is the only program that
combines all of Adobe Illustrator’s drawing
features with high-end painting, scanning,
and color-separation features found only
in stand-alone specialty applications such
as MacPaint, MacDraw, and ThunderScan.
(All these features are also available in an-
other monochrome version that runs on
a Mac Plus.)

More Features

LaserWare has added a cornucopia of
key features to the already sophisticated
drawing, painting, and text-manipulation
abilities of the original program. Highlights
include automatic four-color process or
spot-color separations from drawn, paint-
ed, or text objects; the ability to use the
Pantone Matcliing System when manipulat-
ing the color palette; direct editing of half-
tones; and MultiFinder and network sup-
port. In addition, the performance of
man\' tools is much better than it was in
LaserPaint.

For intricate, precise drawings, the
Drawing toolbox provides be/ier curves,
circles, squares, arcs, spirals, lines, pat-

terns, and fills. LaserPaint Color II works
a lot like an enhanced MacDraw in this
mode. Alternatively, you can use the Paint-
ing toolbox to manipulate a bitmap di-
rectly. LaserPaint Color II provides all the
MacPaint-like tools you can think of and
even lets you work on bitmaps at 72 to 600
dots per inch (dpi) — that’s twice the reso-
lution of the LaserWriter. The Writing tool-
box lets you automatically run text around,
inside, or over any object. You also get full
kerning, leading, and color control, with
font sizes up to 7000 points.

Putting It All Together

LaserPaint Color II really shines when
you use these tools with one another — a
real advantage over using several individ-
ual packages. For instance, if you’ve got a
color picture that you want to scan and
then add a few garnishes to, LaserPaint
Color 11 can handle the whole job, includ-
ing producing a final color separation.

With a Sharp JX-450 color scanner at-
tached to your system, you can scan any-
thing from line art to halftones and color
art at amwhere from 72 to 300 dpi. If
you’re scanning a color image, you may
also select 8-bit, 24-bit, or Pantone repre-
sentations, which are calibrated to the
AppleColor monitor and card. Alternatively,
you can import TIFF, MacPaint, PICT, or
PICT2 files for manipulation.

To remove extraneous details from a
scanned image, you select the Painting
toolbox, select the object to be manipu-
lated, and then make changes with one of
the Paint tools. In “Cleaning Up an Image”

I used the airbrush to do some large-scale
changes and the pen to touch up the re-
sults bit by bit. Note that I’ve softened the
edges of the original by using gradual
shifts in color. The zoom function proved
extremely helpful by letting me work

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Editing an Image

This TIFF image was
scanned in from a
Barneyscan color slide
scanner The top pic-
ture shows the results
of using the marker,
airbrush, and pen
tools to erase half of
the man in the upper
right. The bottom pic-
ture shows the image
after the entire back-
ground was edited.
Generally, the best ef-
fects are obtained by
working with the crud-
est tools first (for ex-
ample, the marker) to
apply broad swatches
of color, then using
finer tools to dither
and blend colors. An-
other approach would
be to remove the extra-
neous background (by
making it white) and
then add a new back-
ground in a different
layer. LaserPaint Color
iFs impressive array
of tools doesn't limit
you to one approach
— you can select
the method that
works best.

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with many tools at up to eight-times
magnification.

Once youVe cleaned up the original
image, you can begin using other tools to
add new details. LaserPaint Color II, like
most sophisticated graphics programs,
works in layers. The scanned image is one
layer. You can draw and add text in other
layers so that you don’t have to worry
about accidentally changing the scanned
image while making additions. Unfortu-
nately, working in layers can be confusing
if you’re not accustomed to it — since you
can always see each object in each layer, it
is frustrating not to be able to access any
object immediately. Moreover, LaserPaint is
not very good at indicating which layer
you’re working on (for instance, the pro-
gram often indicates a layer by drawing a
thin box around it, but the box doesn’t nec-
essarily appear on screen). So it’s highly
likely that you will end up inadvertently
making a change on the wrong layer. Al-
though you can lock objects to prevent un-
intentional changes to them, the lock func-
tion doesn’t provide any feedback to help
you distinguish between locked and un-
locked objects.

Changing Habits

Using LaserPaint Color II is both a
frustrating and a satisfying experience. The
satisfaction comes from the power of the
tools provided. No other Macintosh prod-
uct comes close to the number of features
LaserPaint Color II provides for manipulat-
ing graphics. The frustration comes from
the still-not-quite-Mac-like interface that
you must use to access many tools.

The program has flaws, which tend to
get in the way at the wrong moment (for in-
stance, just when you think you’re finished
with a graphic, a tool will do something
you don’t want it to, and you must redo a
significant portion of your work). Once,
the paintbrush began “flowing” more paint
than I expected; LaserPaint Color II auto-
matically resets the flow to the last setting
used, instead of allowing you to set an eas-
ily remembered default. LaserWare sup-
plies the original manual plus a 64-page
update. But because the program has been
dramatically upgraded, the old manual is
confusing and the update leaves entirely
too much information to your imagination.

One of the more aggravating aspects
of the interface is an Undo feature that
works only for a few drawing and text func-
tions and has no effect on the painting
tools, where it would be most useful. In ad-
dition, the drawing tools function a bit dif-
ferently than you would expect (for exam-
ple, to create a bezier curve, you must
enter the first anchor point, the bezier ma-
nipulation point for it, the bezier manipula-
tion point for the second anchor point, and
then the second anchor point — in that or-
der). The program also deselects objects
unpredictably, so you end up changing an
object other than the one you thought you
were working on. And handles that show
which object is currently selected are of-
ten too subtle or overlap other elements,
making it difficult to tell what you’re
w^orking on.

Power at a Price

Whether or not you decide to buy La-
serPaint Color II depends on how w^ell you
can get along with its eccentricities. Having
to think about what LaserPaint Color II is
likely to do at each step of the way steep-
ens the learning curve considerably. You’ll
have to really want or need LaserPaint Col-
or ll’s features to justify adjusting your
work habits and spending the extra time to
learn its idiosyncrasies the hard way.

Yet, in a single application, LaserPaint
Color II provides the functionality of four
or five other programs, thereby actually
transforming its seemingly high price into
a bargain. For manipulating color scanned
images, LaserPaint Color II provides an ar-
ray of features that no other product can
equal. Even if you’re only interested in
monochrome line draw ings and paint im-
ages, LaserPaint has features that make it
worth looking into . — Cheryl Spencer

See Where to Buy for contact information.

Acceler-rating

DoubleTime-16 2.0
SpeedCard 1.6, PROM 4 01

Macintosh SE accelerator cards. Pros:

Simple upgrade improves SE performance on
standard tasks. Both hoards compatible with
nearly all software. Cons: Actual speed en-
hancement depends strongly on application.
Companies: Ao.x Software (DoubleTime-16)
and SuperMac Technology (SpeedCard). List
price: DoubleTime-16 $395: SpeedCard $395
( $699 with 68881). Requires: SE.

The Aox DoubleTime-16 and the
SuperMac SpeedCard are based
on a simple premise: double the
Mac CPU clock speed with an up-
graded processor and perhaps
you can double application
throughput. Can you really double the
speed of your SE for $400? Well, almost.

These low-cost accelerators use many
of the same tricks — both are designed
around the l6-MHz 68000 chip in your SE,
but they run at twice the speed. Both load
the most frequently used instructions from
an application into a fast RAM cache, and
both support a 68881 math coprocessor.
The 68881 chip, however, w^as designed to
w^ork with the 68020 processor in the Mac
II and can have problems in the SE. Fur-
thermore, the impact of the faster proces-
sor and cache appears onlv^ in operations
wliere CPU speed is the only factor. If
your operation requires extensive disk
input/output, for example, the CPU speed-
up won’t improve actual application
speed much.

First, the Good News

A look at “Fast, Faster, Fastest” shows
that an accelerator board offers you addi-
tional productivity for your money. Instead
of the types of computing benchmarks
used for compilers, w^hich tend to measure
manipulation of small amounts of data and
will exhibit a clean doubling of speed for
both boards, this comparison uses pro-
grams from Macworld's best-seller list.
The Microsoft Word test is a search-and-
replace for 200 occurrences of a w^ord in a
50K text file, the E.xcel recalculation refers
to a 120K spreadsheet loaded w ith func-
tions, and the Cricket Draw^ example is a

(cofUinues)

230 September 1988

The reviewers have packed our bag with a ton of goodies.

So have we.

Macworld called us the best. MocUser said, "If you can only buy one
program for your Mac . . . buy Suitcase’,’ and gave us FIVE MICE, their highest rating.

Then they awarded us BEST NEW UTILITY PROGRAM OF 1987. Howard Bornstein wrote
in the August 11, 1987 Computer Currents that, "Suitcase is one of those amazing products that
somebody finally did right" And in the November ’87 issue of MACazine, Loftus E. Becker said, “. . .
disk users. Suitcase is the most significant innovation since HFS. Get it”

Suitcase allows almost unlimited access to fonts and desk accessories. And they
don’t have to be stored in your System File. Imagine having fifty or more of your favorite
DA’S in your Apple menu. Or three hundred or more fonts just
waiting to be used. Suitcase makes it all possible.

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Fasty Faster, Fastest

On most benchmarks,
the SpeedCard has a
slight edge over the
DoiibleTime-16 board.
The most important
point is that the ex-
pec ted "factor of two*’
effect from the IG-MHz
CPU may or may not
apply to the program
that interests you.

Program Seconds

13

Excel 8

Recalculation 7

4

Word

13

7

6

Replace

Cricket

Draw

12

10

6

SE

DoubieTime

SpeedCard

SpeedCard with 68881

screen redraw of a complex shaded figure.
The database functions (on a 5000-record
file in FoxBASE+/Mac) are indexing, skip-
ping records, and seeking records.

What you get is nearly a factor-of-two
increase in simple word processing tasks,
anomalously good performance on small
special tasks that use the RAM cache, no
improvement (even deterioration) on I/O-
bound tasks, and speed increases of 20 to
100 percent on other chores. With a math
coprocessor, the SpeedCard’s performance
with Excel and FoxBASE+AMac functions is
commendable, although of course it’s not
competitive with SuperMac’s top-of-the-
line l6-MHz 68020 Prodigy card. (The sys-
tem software support for a DoubleTime-l6
68881 was not ready at press time.)

Currently, the SpeedCard is more
evolved and more competent than the
DoubleTime-l6 and features such acces-
sory-board rarities as stable system soft-
ware and an outstanding installation man-
ual. In general, though, with either card,
the SE feels snappier by a pleasant but not
startling amount.

And Not So Good

A 68000 chip and a 68881 math copro-
cessor combination is not the optimal way
to exploit the power of the 68881, and in
some cases it’s no way at all. Specifically, if
the application uses calls to the Standard
Apple Numerics Environment (SANE) — a
method that is slower than direct access —
the board speeds up numerics by a factor
of three to six. If the application doesn’t
route mathematical calls through SANE,
however, there may be no computational
improvement. Although Excel can find a
68881 on these boards and use it, many sci-
entific and engineering programs are spe-
cifically written for a 68020/68881 combina-
tion and, therefore, won’t run on an SE
enhanced with a faster 68000 chip and a
math coprocessor.

Additionally, these investments, mod-
est though they may be, are not recoup-
able. If you purchase the appropriate
SIMMs, you can expand your SE’s memory
immediately, then use the same SIMMs in
a Mac II if you upgrade. The accelerator
boards, however, represent a purchase that

Fast, Faster, Oops
A 68000 accelerator
board dramatically
speeds up database
seeks and record ship-
ping. But for indexing,
the DoubleTime-16
card runs at the same
speed as the standard
SE, while the Speed -
Card actually slows
operations.

Program

Database
Skip Records

Database

Seek

Database

Index

Seconds

79

19

14

202

10

8

34

34

46

SE DoubieTime SpeedCard

stays with your SE forever. With added
memory you can comfortably run Hyper-
Card under MultiFinder, or you could get
performance improvement in many appli-
cations (particularly database and page-
layout programs) by using a large RAM
disk. So there are alternative upgrades for
$400 that you may find more practical.

Clear and Simple Instructions

Here’s what you need to do. First, find
the one piece of software you would most
like to speed up, typically something you
use several hours every day. Next, take
it (and your favorite files) with you to a
SpeedCard or DoubleTime-l6 dealer. Then
try that application on an SE with the accel-
erator for at least 15 minutes. If at the end
of 15 minutes, you still think your applica-
tion feels “accelerated,” you have found a
winning combination. If not, you may be in
the market for more memory, a hotter
accelerator, or a Mac II sometime in the
future . — Charles Setter

See Where to Buy for contact information.

Color for the SE?

ColorVue SE

Color video card for the SE. Pros: Allows
you to attach external color monitor to the SE;
provides color for some applications. Cotts:
Offers only eight colors; color handling is primi-
tive; slow redraw; crashes with some software.
Company: Orchid Technology^ List price:
S695. Requires: Mac SE; 13-inch multisync
monitor, VGA monitor, or AppleColor monitor.

For users who want some color on
their Macintosh SE, Orchid has re-
leased a video card, ColorVue, that
allows you to attach a color monitor. Al-
though Orchid does not attempt to mislead
the public about ColorVue’s capabilities,
most people still expect the card to run
color applications just as the Mac II does.
That expectation, however, is a far cry from
the reality.

Unlike the Mac II, which uses Color
QuickDraw to display color images, Color-
Vue gets its color information from regular

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252 September 1988

The

Breakthrough
UsedToBeATs
And Macs InThe
Same Room.

NowTheyie
InThe Same

Computer.

A Madiitosli II

It was getting pretty crowded. As more and
more Macintoshes started showing up at
work, the duplication of computers, monitors,
printers and keyboards was simply getting out
of hand.

And while there was still a need to use vital
programs like Lotus® 1-2-3® anddBASE® there
was also an ever increasing demand for the
Macintosh. Would the two computer environ-
ments be able to work together?

Times have changed. Now Macintosh^“ Us
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QuickDraw. The original Mac incorporated
QuickDraw primarily to drive an Image-
Writer II that had a color ribbon; therefore,
ColorVue s color abilities are very primi-
tive. Only eight colors are available — not
8-bit color, as with the Mac II — but eight
colors, as in a small box of crayons. Fur-
thermore, since printing in color on the
ImageWriter has never been very popular,
few programs support the feature, and
those that do make it obscure (for instance,
by placing it in the print preview area).

Colorizing a graphic usually consists
of selecting an object, then selecting a col-
or for it from a list. There is no color wheel
to choose colors from, and you can’t blend
colors to create new ones. This is ex-
tremely different from working with the
sophisticated color-handling abilities of
the Mac II.

Putting It Together

Installation is straightforcv^ard; the Col-
orVue video card fits in the SE’s one expan-
sion slot and provides two sockets — one
for attaching the AppleColor monitor or a
13-inch analog multisync monitor (such as
ones from Sony or NEC), and one for at-
taching an IBM-style VGA monitor. The
manual provides good instructions on
installation.

I did, however, have some trouble get-
ting ColorVue to work. When I was still
staring at a dark screen after an hour’s ef-
fort, I carefully reread all the documenta-
tion. Although the manual states that a
Sony Multiscan monitor is compatible, a

typewritten addendum informed me that
1 needed to buy a new cable, one that nor-
mally connects the Sony to an IBM VGA
video card. This seemed like a strange
thing to expect Mac users to figure out, but
then I remembered that Orchid normally
makes products for the IBM PC — ColorVue
is the company’s first Mac product. This
was only one of many bits of inaccurate in-
formation I ran across in the manual.

You access ColorVue’s controls
through the Control Panel. You can choose
2, 8, 16, or Auto colors (I am unaware of
any software that works on ColorVue in 16
colors). You can set the colors to match
those of the ImageWriter II or the Hewlett-
Packard PaintJet, or set pure color.

Auto color returns your screen to
monochrome when color isn’t being
used — a handy feature for speeding sys-
tem performance since screen redraw
slows considerably in the color mode. For
instance, a very small (9.5K) Cricket Draw
image took 11.8 seconds to redraw on an
SE. The same image took an extra 7 sec-
onds to redraw in 8-color mode with Col-
orVue, and nearly twice as long in l6-color
mode. (The image was displayed at the
same size on both the SE screen and the 13-
inch screen.) More complex graphics take
longer to redraw.

You can have the SE screen active, the
external monitor active, or both active.
There is little reason to have both monitors
on at once, however, since they display
matching images (including two active cur-
sors), albeit at different resolutions. Al-

From Black and
White to Color

The ColorVue video
card is installed in the
Mac SE on the right. The
color monitor on the
left demonstrates the
card’s color capabilities.

though the manual states that the card pro-
vides the external monitor with the same
resolution as that of the 13-inch monitor on
the Mac II — 640 by 480 resolution at 72
dots per inch — the external monitor’s res-
olution is actually lower. I’d guess that you
get only 55 dpi. This apparently casual
choice of screen resolution removes an ad-
vantage you would expect from an external
monitor: having more information dis-
played on the screen.

What Works?

Some work sessions went fairly
smoothly with ColorVue, but most were
disappointing. For one thing, the ColorVue
card does not allow you to view color
graphics intended for the Mac II, such as
PICT II files.

Usually, programs designed to run in
color on a Mac II (such as FreeHand, Ado-
be Illustrator, and MacDraw II) bombed
without opening. Those designed to run
on all Macs (such as WordPerfect) grayed
out access to their color controls. Running
ImageStudio produced monochrome im-
ages, with patterns substituted for the gray
values. Every attempt of mine to import
gray-scale or color graphics into an appli-
cation produced the same result — gray-
scale values and colors were converted into
patterns, just as they would be on the
SE screen.

I did, however, produce color in some
graphics programs — usually those that
support color printing on the ImageWriter
II (for instance. Canvas and Cricket Draw).
But even here I found glitches in opera-
tion, such as part of the screen’s losing its
color during redraw. Since the manual of-
fers precious little information on what ap-
plications are compatible and what results
to expect (and since Orchid is working to
solve compatibility problems), you should
try running your applications before pur-
chasing ColorVue.

Although the idea of a video card that
allows users to run color on an SE is ap-
pealing, ColorVue has too many rough
edges to make it a truly viable product.
Users who can’t justify the cost of a color
Mac II will still probably prefer to dream
about a color SE than to deal with the
reality of Orchid’s ColorVue SE.

— Scott Beamer

See Wfhere to Buy for contact information.

234 September 1988

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Reviews

Quicken Easy
Finances

Quicken 1.0

Personal financial management program.
Pros: Simple, quick, and easy to use; many fea-
tures for its price Cons: As user needs grow
more comp/e.x, program loses its simple" advan-
tages. Company: Intuit. List price: $49.95.
Requires: 512K.

Now that MacMoney in version
3.0, has joined Managing Your
Money and Dollars and Sense in
helping to manage personal finances, room
has opened up in the POCR (plain old
check Viter ) end of the market. One prod-
uct that fills some of this room is Par Soft-
ware s Easy Checks. Easy Checks is about
as plain as a POCR can be — it pops up as a
desk accessory, lets you wTite a check and
stub note, prints the check, and disappears.

Quicken is a couple of steps above
Easy Checks, even though it still won’t eas-
ily manage your loans or investment port-
folios. It does, however, offer features such
as recurring transactions, budgeting, track-
ing of transactions by category (for in-
stance, Clothing or Auto Expenses), and
on-screen check reconciliation. It exports
data in SYI.K and HyperCard formats, and
the publishers offer unlimited free tele-

phone support (you pay only for the call).
That’s quite a bundle of features for a prod-
uct with a list price under $50.

Simplicity Is the Key

I w^as able to set up Quicken without
even looking at the manual. First, you set
up each checking account in its own file.

So if you have several checking accounts
and plan to shuffle money back and forth
between them, you will have to make man-
ual transfers (or buy one of the high-end
programs like MacMoney or Managing
Your Money).

Next, you set up income and expense
categories. The program supplies sample
sets of home and business categories
(which you can easily modify), or you can
create your own. The program, however,
does not provide any complex categories
such as asset or liability. Thus, if you want
to set up a credit card (liability) category,
you have to make some adaptations in or-
der to track balances in these accounts.

The excellent documentation guides you
through this procedure and others like it.

Data Entry

Most of your interaction with the pro-
gram will be in two main screen forms:
Write Checks and Enter Transactions. The
Write Checks form duplicates your check-
book, with the check on the right and the
stub on the left. Quicken automatically as-
signs numbers to the check forms when
you print them out. After you fill in the
check, you assign the amount to an ex-
pense category on the stub. Categories
may be selected from an on-screen list (see
“Writing Checks”) or entered from the key-
board by typing the first few letters of the
category name (a luxury not available in
MacMoney). A running balance at the top
of the stub tells you the status of your
account.

The Enter Transactions form allows
you to enter deposits and cash withdrawals
via radio buttons. You can also use this
form to edit entries already made in the
check register (sorted by date). For in-
stance, you can change the amount of a
check or void a check.

To print checks, you simply give
Quicken a cutoff date and the number of
the preprinted check that is in your printer.
Quicken then automatically prints all re-

' 4 File Edit Rctiuiliet Categorlet Recurring

Writing Checks

Quicken's check-writing screen replicates a com-
mon checkbook. You may enter categories
charged by clicking on the item in the Category*
List, or by typing the first few letters of the cate-
gory name.

maining checks. If printing goes awry (say
your checks jam), you correct the problem,
assign a new starting check number, and
Quicken makes another pass. You can also
reprint checks.

Quicken offers a good report genera-
tor that should satisfy most users. Bear in
mind, however, that you’re dealing with
only two categories — Income and Expense
(see “Transaction Reporting”). You can
also print your reports, as well as create
artwork for your checks, using Quicken’s
HyperCard stacks. The program supports
LaserWriter and ImageWriter printers.

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Transaction Reporting

Transaction reports are desigtted on this form.
Reports may be printed or viewed on screen.

236

SqMcmber 1988

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1

Fast and Easy

Quicken is a fast, easy-to-learn per-
sonal finance program that gives the user a
lot of power for its price. Features like re-
curring transactions, budgeting, tax record
tracking, and checkbook reconciliation are
readily accessible. And, you can create
complex transactions, such as credit card
balance tracking. But the main thrust of the
program is its simplicity, and the few^er
complexities you introduce to your fi-
nances, the more comfortable you’ll feel
with the program . — Alan L. Slay

See Where to Buy for contact information.

Express (Yourself)
Mail

Postcards 1.0

Clip art postcanl designer. Pros: Provides
disk full of humorously drawn characters, crit-
ters, and backgrounds that paste together easily
into funny custom postcards. Cons: If you really
want to make cards on your Mac, you can do
it pretty easily without buying Postcards.
Company: Activision. List price: $29.95.
Requires: 512K; external drive recommended.

I las your artsy-craftsy side been
losing out to your high-tech habit?
Activision’s Postcards can have
you cutting and pasting with real scissors
(yours) and something like real paste
(theirs) as you put hands-on finishing
touches to clip-art postcards you’ve dig-
itally slapped together with your Mac. The
process is as simple as using your own
paint program, so even if N'ou’re not much
of an artist, you can still make your own
funny cards with ease.

The Postcards kit includes one disk
containing a clip art collection, 20 blank
postcards, and a tube of glue stick. The clip
art disk is indexed on a reference card
that’s included, so you can choose quickly
among background scenes, structures,
messages and captions, objects, food,
people, animals, and vehicles. There are
also two template outlines, for the front
and the back, in which you can paste your

ow'n paint-program art or a digitized image
saved in a compatible paint-program for-
mat. You can use Postcards to create birth-
day and holiday cards, dinner-table place
cards, or any other cards you choose.

You start by loading a paint program,
such as MacPaint, FullPaint, or SuperPaint.
You then select a background or scene
from the clip art disk and save it as a paint
file. Next you open successive files contain-
ing the elements you want on your card
(funny characters, buildings, captions, and
so on\ copy those elements one at a time
to your new paint file, and paste them into
place on the background you’ve chosen.
You print the finished design and use the
glue stick to stick the printed postcard to
the blank postcard backing, then use scis-
sors to trim around the postcard backing
to complete your card. The w'hole process
takes just 10 or 15 minutes, unless you are
disk-swapping with a single-drive macliine.
(There is a mail-in coupon for additional
blank postcards from Activision: $4.50 for
50 postcards.)

Gift Packaging

Postcards is essentially a glorified clip
art collection. The art is loose and comical,
some of it quite humorous even uncap-

tioned. The desert, beach, and arctic back-
ground scenes occupy costly disk space
and are very similar. However, you can sup-
plement the 390K of art supplied by Post-
cards with any other clip art acceptable
to your paint program. This brings up the
real issue.

Several good clip art collections are
available at cheaper prices, or free from
user groups and bulletin boards. You can
purchase a glue stick and plain postcards in
stores that sell stationery products. So you
can make your own postcards easily with-
out investing in Postcards. Postcard’s value
comes down to the quality of its clip art
(good) and the amount of it you are getting
(not so good).

Postcards is the answer to what is
knowm in marketing as The Gift Situation.

It might well make an amusing gift for an
only slightly artsy-craftsy Mac maniac who
probably doesn’t have the time to search
the world for a glue stick and whose clip
art files are bound to be in need of updat-
ing. The Postcards package seems almost
guaranteed to inspire experimentation, re-
sulting in otherwise unlikely homemade
postcards . — Keith McCandless

See Where to Buy for contact information.

238 September 1988

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Getting Your
Books in Order

Prolate for the Macintosh 1.3

Bibliographic management system. Pros:
Creates fully formatted bibliographies from raw
database records; comes with style sheet-like files
for many standard bibliographic formats; lets
you create bibliographic style sheets specifying
nearly every conceivable formatting detail; can
share files with PC version. Cons: Hopelessly dis-
organized manual; program doesn't support
subscripts and superscripts; poor page-format-
ting abilities. List price: $395. Company: Per-
sonal Bibliographic Software. Requires: 512KE;
System 4.1 or higher; two floppy disks or hard
disk recommended.

In this era of the computerized
grammar-and-spelling checker,
thesaurus, and the set-it-and-
forget-it footnote, one of the last manual
chores left for the writer is the much-
dreaded bibliography. FullWrite Profes-
sional has a bibliography command, but it’s
limited to the simplest tasks. And Profes-
sional Bibliographic System Reviews,
Macivorld,] 2 in\M\ry 1987), though good as
far as it goes, doesn’t go nearly far enough
for most serious writers. But they need la-
ment no longer, for Personal Bibliographic
Software has completely revamped Profes-
sional Bibliographic System to produce
Pro-Cite, a unique and powerful biblio-
graphic database manager and bibliogra-
phy generator.

At the core of Pro-Cite is a biblio-
graphic database with 20 predefined work-

forms. You can record each citation in a
workform appropriate to the item being
recorded: journal or newspaper article,
book, recording, letter, map, musical score,
and so on. For media not anticipated by
Pro-Cite (such as patents or CD ROxM), you
can custom-design up to six additional
workforms. And you can easily change the
workform of a record, for example, from
Journal-Short Form to Journal-Long Form
or Newspaper, at any time.

Each workform contains a subset of
Pro-Cite’s 45 field types; these include ev-
erything from author (of several types), ti-
tle (article or book), and publication date,
to notes, abstracts, and index words. Fields
are of variable length and accept up to
32,000 different characters. Only three —
Author, Date, and Index — require special
formatting. Unfortunately, Pro-Cite does
not check these fields for valid input; it’s up
to you to remember the proper format
(each of the three fields has a different
one) and enter the information correctly.

Data entry is simply a matter of typing
and tabbing to the next field within the
scrolling Pro-Cite database window. User-
created authority lists — lists of often-used
author names, journal titles, index words,
and the like — help make data entry easier
and reduce input errors. Authority lists, if
properly formatted, also function as Micro-
soft Word-type glossaries; you enter sym-
bols, numbers, or abbreviations in the
database and Pro-Cite substitutes the ap-
propriate unabridged terms in any bibli-
ography constructed from that database.
You can merge selected records or whole
databases. In addition, Pro-Cite quickly lo-
cates duplicate records within a database
and easily exports records to other data-
base programs.

Sorting, Selecting, Compiling

Pro-Cite has the ability to select, sort,
and compile finished bibliographies in al-
most any imaginable format. Its sophisti-
cated search function can select records
using global scans for simple text strings
(including wild cards) and Boolean opera-
tors (AND, OR, NOT, and so on) for com-
plex sorts. Or you can select citations man-
ually, one by one. If standard alphanumeric
order does not meet your needs, Pro-Cite
can perform single- or multilevel sorts
using up to six different fields to create bib-
liographies organized, for example, by au-
thor, journal name, or index word or
phrase.

Finally, from the selected and sorted
entries, Pro-Cite creates a fully formatted
bibliography. The order of each entry’s ele-
ments and the punctuation between them
is determined by predefined style sheet-
like files covering most major bibliograph-
ic formats, including those of the American
National Standards Institute, The Chicago
Manual of Style, the Index Medicus, and
the American Institute of Physics. Should
your article be rejected by one journal, you
need only choose a different punctuation
file to completely reformat the bibliogra-
phy for your next submission.

You can modify existing punctuation
files, or create files of your own in Pro-
Cite’s Format Description Language. Style

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Computerized

Bibliography

Pro-Cite takes data,
such as the record
shown here, from its
bibliographic database
and constructs fin-
ished bibliographies
in any format.

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formatting on a field-by-field basis, such as
designating italics for journal title and
boldface for volume number, can be set in
the punctuation file or as a formatting op-
tion within the program. Pro-Cite does not,
however, support subscripts and super-
scripts. You can preview completed biblio-
graphies within the program and then
print them. But Pro-Cite s page-formatting
capabilities are rudimentary at best; you’ll
obtain much better results by exporting
the finished bibliography to another w^ord
processor as a text-only file or as a Mac-
Write 4.5 file (iMicrosoft Word format is
not available).

All This and More

And there’s more to Pro-Cite — much
more. The program’s In-text function, for
example, can read a text-only version of a
finished article, create a bibliography of
citations in the article, and if you wish,
change the citations in the article to se-
quential numbers corresponding to the
numbered entries in the bibliography. Bib-
liographic formatting options include al-
most every detail in the formatting of au-
thor names: the program can even convert
first and middle names to initials, replace
long lists of secondary authors to et al.,
and reverse first and last names for some
or all authors. Pro-Cite can share database
and punctuation files and authority lists
with the MS-DOS version of the program.
Soon-to-be-released translation utilities,
called Biblio-Links, will be able to convert
references downloaded from BRS, DIA-
LOG, MEDLARS, and NOTIS into Pro-Cite
formats. And many of Pro-Cite ’s sorting and
formatting routines run in the background
under MultiFinder.

A major item for criticism is Pro-Cite’s
disorganized, 600-page manual, which fails
to explain adequately the program’s over-
whelming number of features and options.
The index is no help either. If you regularly
write papers for scholarly journals, churn
out bibliographies of one sort or another,
or need to track and print information
about collections of almost any kind, Pro-
Cite has no peer. But be forewarned: you
will have to read all 600 pages of the man-
ual, many of them more than once, to fully
tap Pro-Cite’s power and versatility.

— Robert C. Eckhardt

See Where to Buy for contact information.

Hard Copy for
HyperCard

Reports 1,1

HyperCard report program. Pros: Exten-
sive select and sort capabilities; layout tools are
adequate and easy to use. Cons: Limited mail
merge and word processing capabilities; best
suited forforms-oriented reports. Company:
Activision (distributed by Mediagenic). List
price: S99.95 Requires: 1MB.

HyperCard lets you store informa-
tion elegantly, but its reporting ca-
pabilities are crude. Restricted to
printing in rows or columns, by card or
stack, HyperCard limits the extent to which
you can analyze or print data, particularly
if you’re no pro at HyperTalk. Reports ex-
tends HyperCard’s meager database and
report features. You can sort and select
data, preview reports, and print them with
graphics and total fields. For complex re-
ports, the program includes a script editor
in addition to several script templates.

Designing a Layout

Reports contains two stacks: Reports,
which creates a layout, and ReportCard,
which lets you select and print a report
(see “ReportCard”).

To create a report you enter the Re-
ports editor from the ReportCard (or from
the desktop), selecting the stack and back-
ground that contain the field names to be
used in the layout.

The report form consists of five sepa-
rate sections: the header, footer, detail, to-
tal, and break sections. You can use any of

ReportCard

The ReportCard displays up to 16 reports. If you
don't use a report regularly, you can replace it
with another, or change its order in the list. A test-
print feature lets you print or preview a specified
number of cards.

Reports’ drawing or field tools in these sec-
tions. The header and footer are similar to
those in most word processing programs,
only instead of icons, you use global vari-
ables to handle pagination and date-stamp-
ing tasks. The detail section contains the
data to be printed from the stack. The
break section, with optional page advance,
denotes a change in data (such as a month)
or department. In creating a report using
Edward Schenk’s and D. L. Knudson’s Video
Library, I inserted a break section to visu-
ally separate the categories of movies and
to give the renal number of viewing hours
in each category. The total section appears
only at the end of the report. 1 used this in-
formation to tally numerical data for the
entire report.

You design a report using drawing
tools, text information, and graphics fields.
The layout form for Reports incorporates
many familiar tools (selection arrow, line,
rectangle, and text tools). Line width
ranges from 1 to 4 pixels. You can group
and align objects using a grid or com-
mands, and you can place objects behind
or in front of each other. These commands
allow you to superimpose text over graph-
ics and set off information with under-
lining or column rules.

The text information consists of two
text tools liaving different functions: text
fields serve as labels; information fields
display card data. Information fields have
the same names as their stack field coun-
terparts. You can have them show a value, a
total, or an average. You can also use fields
from more than one background. The
Group and Align commands make it simple
to position fields, but the object handles
appear only when a field is selected. So it’s
easy to overlap fields, thereby obscuring
the letters of one field with another. Merge
letters are even more of a problem. If you
leave too little space, a scrolling field may
overlap the field below it.

To enhance a report with graphics,
you have a choice of pasting an image into
the layout via the Clipboard, or pasting an
image from a stack using a graphics field.
Unlike an information field, however, a
graphics field does not automatically im-
port data from the card to the report. You
have to write a script that includes the im-
age coordinates or that selects the entire
card. If you size the graphics field smaller
than your largest graphic. Reports reduces

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242 September 1988

7 Reasons Why Tecmar
Tape Backup is Vital
if You Own a Mac Hard Disk.

1 . Why do you think they call
it a hard disk?

Hard disks are great -

for storing data, but
they're, well-
hard.

Hard to

handle. Hard to ’
protect. Hard to trans-
port data and software. You get the picture.

Tecmar's QT-Mac40™ makes owning a
hard disk eas\\ This 40MB tape drive pro-
tects your data from human and mechani-
cal failure; lets you remove, yet save, files
from your hard disk: lets you send large
amounts of data across countr\- overnight;
and even organizes all files under an eas\ -
to-use, menu-driven format. That's a hard
disk management system.

2. .More than Apple® com-
patibility — interchangeability.

Apple selected the 40MB QIC 100 tape
format using DC2000-size cartridges for its
own uipe s\5tem. so to be compatible
you must have a tape backup
s\5tem capable of
reading and writing
in this format.

The QT-Mac40
can. In fact, the
QT-Mac40 is so
compatible with
Apple’s own tape
system that you can use
a QT-Mac40 to write to a tape,
put the tape in an Apple system
and restore the data to a hard disk, and
vice-versa.

3. Bister tlitui a speeding Apple.

Compatible, but better! The QT-Mac40
is more than twice tlie speed of Apple's
tape backup. So, you can back up an entire
40MB hard disk in just 16 minutes—
it takes 40 minutes with Apple.

4. Portability' for sharing.

QT-Mac40's compact, free-
standing design makes it easy to
move from Mac to Mac or to a chain of
SCSI peripherals for sharing. It's so small
that it even fits in most briefcases.

5. Superior soft\\uiT 0 .

Using the Mac's familiar, easy-to-use
icon-oriented .software interface, the
QT-Mac40
requires no
special
training.

And, the
QT-Mac40
has many
software
feaaires that
simply aren't available with any other
unit, such as our exclusive PowerTag”
software that lets you selectively tag only
die files that have changed for backup.
And a background backup mode tliat lets
you back up while using the ,Mac.

6. Expeiience makes the
difieix^nce.

As the leading tape backup
supplier for all personal com-
puters. with over 100,000 units
in the field, no one— not even
Apple— can match our expe-
rience and engineering know-
. Maybe that's whywe're able to
give you a ^vo-year warranty. .And. if you
have a problem in the first six months
of ownership, w’e guarantee a replacement
within 48 hours.

7. Expats agi-ee.

Ric R)rd — .MitcWEEK: "Ow experience
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The hardware is solid, attractive atui
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that graphic to fit the field. Images smaller
than the field are centered within the field.

Selecting, Sorting, and Scripting

Reports performs up to 16 selections
and 5 sorts. A dialog box lists the informa-
tion fields for the Sort and Select opera-
tions. You refine the criteria by specifying
field components (Character, Word, Item,
or Line) and by setting comparison opera-
tors (such as Contains, Excludes, Greater
Than, Less, or Equal). After choosing a
comparison operator, data type (Text,
Number, Date) and relationship (And, Or),
a list of statements appears in a window
with your Select or Sort criteria. You can
add, edit, or delete these statements, but
not copy or move them, which is annoying
at times, since the sequence of the state-
ments is critical in extracting the data you
really want. When you save the report, the
Sort and Select criteria become part of the
report layout.

A Script Editor allows experienced
1 lyperCard users to prepare more complex
reports. The Scripts menu includes script
templates with handlers that request infor-
mation before a report, initiate an action
after a report, carry out an action before
printing a section, or update a card after
printing the report. The Statements menu
lists frequently used HyperTalk statements,
such as Add, Answer, Ask. Predefined glob-
als perform useful chores such as keeping
track of the report path name, or supplying
the background name where the fields in
the layout appear. You can also edit the
script from ReportCard without having to
open the layout program, a nice shortcut
if you get an error message while preview-
ing a report.

The Printout

before printing a report, it s wise to
preview or test print the report layout with
Preview. The preview screen has a magni-
fying glass, scroll bars, and a size box
(available in version 1.2). To make printing
more efficient, Reports allows you to chain
reports. Activision also provides prede-
signed reports for use with its other
HyperCard application. Focal Point.

Althougli you do not need to write a
script to produce a report, it doesn’t take
long to advance from simple to complex
layouts that do rec|uire scripting. But ba-
sically, you’ll find Reports to be a good,
utilitarian tool and a welcome relief from
the frustrations of extracting and printing
data from stacks . — Jcmet McCanciless

See Where to Buy for contact information.

Call Me

MacNetl.O

Communications nettvork. Pros: Easy to
use; excellent electronic mail; free stock market
information; automatic connect feature; low
connect charges. Cons: Awkward public mes-
sage system. Company: Connect. List price:
S49 95. Requires: 512KE; 800K external drive
or bard drive; modem.

_Cjr|L Bulletin board systems (BBSs) are
places to get advice, down-
tiL load programs, and participate in
discussions. But a BBS or telecommunica-
tions network is only as useful as its user
interface. After all, what good is the infor-
mation on a network if you can’t figure out
where to find it?

Enter MacNet, which lets you log on to
and navigate through a network in typical
Mac fashion. To find bulletin boards and in-
formation, you click through hierarchical
folders and icons (see “Neither Snow, nor
Rain”). As a result, MacNet is much easier
to use than networks like CompuServe,
GEnie, and Dow Jones, which primarily re-
quire text commands to navigate the infor-
mation network.

Dialing In and Moving About

MacNet consists of the network itself,
plus the software to log on to and navigate
that network. Unlike general-purpose soft-
ware like Microphone, FreeTerm, or Red
Ryder, MacNet software was developed
specifically for the MacNet network. All
communications protocols are automat-
ically set by the MacNet software; the only

4 rile Edit Setup Mall Window Inrormollon

Neither Snon\ nor Rain
Untike most telecommunications networks, you
navigate through MacNet services by clicking on
hierarchical icons and folders.

things you have to provide are your mo-
dem’s speed (currently 1200 or 2400 baud)
and your area’s MacNet phcMie number.

MacNet’s electronic mail feature is
outstanding — more intuitive and easier to
use than Desktop Express. The form for
messages comes complete with “to”, “cc’’,
and “subject” headers (see “This Looks
Familiar”). Mail can include files, pro-
grams, or Glue documents created with
ImageSaver. MacNet has a built-in version
of Glue’s Viewer, so your Mac automatically
recognizes those ImageSaver documents.
After receiving mail, you can save it to disk;
or you can print mail while you’re online
or after you’ve disconnected from MacNet.

Bulletin Alert

Bulletin boards are an important part
of any network, and MacNet has many. The
Apple Support Forum provides Apple Sys-
tem software upgrades, development soft-
ware, product specifications, and a data-
base of helpful Mac documents; there’s
even a place called AskApple, where you
can ask Apple questions. Some vendors,
like Aldus, offer hotline product support
on MacNet.

There are also two medical databases:
bioMedicus and medLaw. You search for
database information by keyword, date, or
table of contents.

Among the services in the Mac Sym-
posium are file libraries, a user-group fo-
rum, a public-me.ssage forum, and third-
party-vendor product information. Becau.se
MacNet connection charges are lower than
those of other information services, down-
loading shareware and public domain soft-
ware is less expensive.

MacNet provides free 15-minute de-
layed quotes on stocks, futures, and op-

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This Looks Familiar

Macnet's E-mail system lets you create your own
address book for frequent E-mail-recipient user
IDs. You don't have to be connected to compose
messages.

lions. With the Auto Connect feature, you
can configure the Mac to call the network,
log on, receive and send mail, update stock
information, and log off at specific times
and days of the week. Auto Connect does
work in MultiFinder s background.

The only thing Td like to see im-
proved is MacNet’s public-message system.
Posting a message on any MacNet public
bulletin board is not intuitive. Although the
public and private (E-mail) message forms
are identical, you don’t use the “to” or “cc”
lines; you must indicate the subject on the
“subject” line. Then, you can’t post a public
message with a keyboard command — only
from a menu.

To read public messages, you must
open them individually. This procedure
t^es much more time than scrolling
through messages on other BBS systems.
You can’t download a whole set of public
messages because you must select each
message to save. It would also be nice if
messages could be linked to one another
in a threadlike format. As it now stands,
you can either rely on the subject header
to follow' a thread or you can perform a
keyword search.

Number, Please

These problems, however, don’t
undermine the good features MacNet of-
fers: a user interface that makes browsing
through information a breeze, and an ex-
cellent mail system. Connect charges are
reasonable: $8 per hour during peak hours
(7 a.m. to 7 p.m.), and $4 per hour during
nonpeak hours. If you’re a telecommunica-
tions novice, definitely check out MacNet.
Even if you’re an old hand, do the same;
you’ll be impressed . — BritaMeng

See Where to Buy for contact information.

Tracing Your Roots

MacGene 2.85

Genealogy program. Pros: Wide variety
of features; supports user-defined fields. Cons:
Many features poorly implemented; can't relabel
fields; poorly designed charts; misleading de-
scendant chart data. Company: Applied Ideas.
List price: Version 2.9 $145. Requires: 512 K;
hard disk recommended.

Family Heritage File 1.5

Genealogy program. Pros: Easy to learn
and use; good note file implementation; excel-
lent help for researching and organizing infor-
mation; professional output. Cons: No Cut
and Paste; lacks descendant chart; lacks user-
definable fields. Company: Starcom Micro-
systems. List price: $149. Requires: 51 2K.

Family Roots 1.3

Genealogy program. Pros: Highly versatile
and customizable; supports macros. Cons: Hard
to learn and use; some confusing commands.
Company: Quinsept. List price: Version 1.4
$117.50. Requires: 512K.

MacGene, Family Heritage File,
and Family Roots are geared to-
ward people who treat genealogy
as an ongoing research effort,
rather than a weekend project. For
this review, three people — an ex-
perienced genealogist/novice
Macintosh user, an intermediate
genealogist/intermediate Macin-
tosh user, and a novice genealogist/experi-
enced Macintosh user — tested the pro-
grams. We wanted to see if all three would
agree on which program to buy.

v^ENE

n

’’ « File Edit Select lUt Chart Options Ulindouis

A Sprawling Tree

Although MacGene creates a familiar MacDraw-
type chart, it doesti 't present a standard one-
page pedigree chart. A standard pedigree chart
also flows from left to right rather than from top
to bottom.

MacGene

MacGene offers a wide variety of fea-
tures, some of which are very useful. But
unfortunately, most of them are poorly im-
plemented. For instance, the program lets
you define 12 fields, so you can choose the
types of data that you want to record. But
unlike standard database programs, you
cannot change the default labels. Thus, the
first field is always labeled Field #1, the
second. Field #2, and so on. MacGene
does provide a “hint” utility (really a note-
pad) where you can record new field la-
bels, but this information cannot be
printed on any record or chart.

MacGene also provides three note
fields, but limits them to 40 characters
each. The program tries to get around this
limit by including a field in each person’s
primary information file to link it to a sepa-
rate document, which could include more
detailed notes. Although this method
works, many research notes warrant inclu-
sion in the primary record.

Most of MacGene ’s problems con-
sisted of minor annoyances, but we did find
two serious flaws. First, the program’s date
field format does not accept an entry of
“bef 1770” or “aft 1820.” Customer support
personnel suggested using -^1769 or -1821,
allowable entries for “approximate” dates.
Data fields, however, should support com-
plete, accurate entry of data. After all, a
good deal of effort is required to deter-
mine the dates, and they could be impor-
tant for conducting future research.

The second major problem occurs in
the descendant and pedigree charts. Al-
though the charts should be informative
and useful features, they are poorly imple-
mented. The descendant chart lists up to
eight generations of descendants from a
specified individual. But because the chart
lists the offspring in each generation in re-
verse order of actual birth, it can be very
misleading. The pedigree chart is pre-
sented in a nonstandard format that does
not print on a single, letter-size page. You
have to tape the pages together and then
fold them to fit into a binder, thus creating
a cumbersome document.

Family Heritage File

Family Heritage File is a licensed ver-
sion of the Personal Ancestral File, a gene-
alogy program and standard established by
the Church of Latter-Day Saints. Although
Family Heritage File does not support the

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246 September 1988

Howto impress
the powers thatbe with
the power that is.

Chances are your bosses don’t have a full
appreciation of your Macintosh. It’s powerful, nice
to look at, and it’s great with graphics -they’ll grant
you that much. But does it have a way with words?

Well now, thanks to WordPerfect’ for the
Macintosh, you can finally put their minds at ease.
It’s a new, powerful, easy-to-use word processor
from the world leader in word processing. A word
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So give your Mac the word processing power
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11 JUN 1988

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Chr.!

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Harr: 31 OCT 1867

Place: LXISVILLE, KENTUCKY

Died: 29 JAN 1923

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Bur.: 1 FEB 1923

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Father; HILL I AH CRANFORD LONG REV. -0035
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Other Hives:

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Bom: 22 JAN 1835

Place: LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

Chr.:

Place;

Died: 3 XT 1910

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Bur.; 5 XT 1910

Father: PETER ROONEY-0044
Hother: SALLIE MfJLL-0045
Other Husbands:

Place: CAVE HILL CEH.,LXISVILLE, KENTUCKY

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1. Naee: HILLIAH COURTNEY L0N6-O01E Spouse:

Bom: 21 AUG 1868

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Family Reports

Family Heritage File offers professional, easy to read reports. This report details one family group —
husband, wife, and children.

Standard Macintosh cut and paste func-
tions, it is the easiest of the three packages
to learn and the most intuitive to use. It has
very clear and concise menu commands,
and its printouts are the most professional
looking and the easiest to read. While it
seems annoying at first, the required sec-
ond entry of data to be included in the dic-
tionary is quite helpful in eliminating er-
rors. Any researcher who has wasted time
searching for official records that have
been misspelled or misfiled will appreciate
this feature.

The program also offers excellent
help in researching information. A Supple-
mental Life History Disk contains a 15-page
list of questions for interviewing a family
member. Since the questions were written
by a professional historical researcher, they
are very insightful and aid in extracting
accurate information from someone’s
memories.

On the down side. Family Heritage
File lacks a descendant chart and user-
definable fields. An excellent note file par-
tially compensates for the absence of these

fields — not only can you enter unlimited
amounts of text in the file, but you can also
select individual notes for printing in the
primary information file.

Family Roots

Family Roots is the most flexible of the
programs, but it is also the hardest to learn.
For instance, this is the only program weVe
ever used that does not have a Quit menu
selection. Instead, the program uses Exit to
Finder — a command that the novice Mac-
intosh user does not understand. The pro-
gram gives you a lot of freedom in custom-
izing data entry and report forms. You can
create forms that are specific to the type of
research you are doing, and you can print
almost any combination of fields.

Family Roots also supports macro cre-
ation, but while macros can be powerful
tools, they are difficult to remember if you
don’t use the program regularly. Likewise,
we had trouble remembering the proper
format for entering address information.

The address is entered into a single field
and must be coded to keep the street ad-
dresses from printing with the city/state
information on charts and lists.

Although the manual is thorough, it’s
somewhat intimidating, requiring more
than a beginner’s understanding of both
genealogy and computer terminology.

Also, several of Family Roots’ commands
are unclear or ambiguous. For example,
when you want to delete all the data in an
individual’s information file, you select the
Reinitialize command. Since “initialize” in
Mac terminology generally reformats an
entire disk, all three testers were hesitant
to use the command.

Each of the programs can handle un-
usual entries — such as for adopted chil-
dren (who can have two sets of parents),
children of unwed parents (an “unjoined”
family structure), or name changes — as
long as you use a little logical creativity.
MacGene, however, contains too many
flaws for us to recommend it. Family Roots
is highly versatile, but because we had
trouble remembering how to use many of
the options from session to session, we rec-
ommend it only to full-time researchers
who would use it daily. Family Heritage File
hits a nice medium between the other two
programs and proved to be the unanimous
choice of all three test participants for their
personal use . — fackLong

See Where to Buy for contact information.

A Window on DOS

Mac+VC SE

IBM PC boa rd for the SE. Pros: Good engi-
neering; runs the major MS-DOS programs; help-
ful interface utilities; good technical support.
Cons: Weak documentation. Company: Perfec-
Tek. List price: $1195. Requires: Mac SE, two
disk drives.

A Despite its advantages, the Mac

lives in a computing environment
still dominated by IBM PCs. Many
offices, in particular, have heavy invest-
ments in PC-based software and need to
preserve compatibility while integrating
Macs. The Mac+PC SE board is a very slick
solution to problems faced by people who
must use both Mac and MS-DOS applica-
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occasionally, this solution is more expen-
sive than keeping a PC clone on standby;
however, it’s very effective for users who
must frequently switch between a PC and
a Macintosh.

Packing a PC

Because Mac + PC SE is based on
PerfecTek’s MS-DOS board for the Mac
Plus, the engineering is well debugged and
the board has a clean layout with no re-
work. The Mac+PC SE features an 8-MHz
NEC upgrade for the 8086, resulting in
computational performance on PC pro-
grams that’s slightly better than that of a
Turbo XT The board has its own PC-style
parallel port and serial port, which are ac-
cessible through the cut-out slot on the
back of the SE.

The board also includes 512K of RAM;
it is upgradable to 640K, but 512K is suffi-
cient for most DOS applications. Because
Mac+PC SE doesn’t require you to parti-
tion any Macintosh main memory, you can
run MultiFinder in the SE’s 1 megabyte,
treating your DOS work as just another
switchable application.

Making Itself Useful

The Mac+PC SE comes with some
very helpful interface utilities. One set al-
lows you to transfer data and programs
from PC floppies using the transfer utility
and the provided null-modem cable. The

utility software creates a logical DOS for-
mat on 3V2-inch Mac disks, so you can use
them in a Mac that is running the Mac+PC
SE. Thus, you can run DOS programs using
only the drives in your Mac (other DOS
boards require you to use a 5*/4-inch drive
like the DaynaFile).

After setting up the disks, you can
transfer the applications and DOS to a par-
titioned area of your hard disk, using the
DOS utility FDisk. (You must have your
own copy of DOS, preferably version 3 2 or
higher.) The partition makes your system
behave as if it had two smaller hard disks,
one loaded with DOS and PC applications
and the other with Mac files and programs.
When you double-click the Mac+PC SE
application icon on the Mac side of the
fence, the screen turns into a DOS window
with a limited Mac menu at the top (see
“Eureka?!”). When you quit, you land back
in the Macintosh world.

The menu on the DOS side lets you
cut, copy, and paste in traditional Mac style;
use DAs; and set whole-screen fonts and
point sizes. (In practice, anything besides
9-point Monaco leads to most DOS pro-
grams spilling off the screen.) The Graph-
ics selections enable you to set gray-scale
graphics in selected applications, and the
Special menu lets you solve some DOS-
specific problems with the Mac keyboard
(for example, the §§ key can be set to
correspond to Alt on the PC keyboard so

you can reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Delete). And,
although major MS-DOS programs such as
Lotus 1-2-3 and WordStar run flawlessly,
others such as Flight Simulator and Side-
Kick do not work properly due to key-
board, graphics, and memory-allocation
considerations.

The skimpy manual offers little help to
Mac-mostly users expanding into DOS ap-
plications, but phone support is cheerful,
prompt, and technically competent.

Why?

One advantage of using the Mac+PC
SE instead of switching between the Mac
and a PC clone is that you can easily trans-
fer files from the PC partition to the Mac
partition and vice versa. For instance, you
can receive a dBase file in DOS mode over
the serial port, modify it in PC dBase, and
then pop it up in the Mac directory for use
in a Mac database.

Although most Mac programs make
provision for transforming files into their
drab, PC-readable equivalents, the value
of the Mac+PC SE lies elsewhere. It allows
you to use a Mac in offices where vertical-

Eureka?!

This is the DOS version of Borland's Eureka, run'
ning on a Mac SE equipped with Mac+PC SE.

This screen was generated during a benchmark
rim — the board is more valuable on specialized
applications for which no Mac equivalent
exists (yet).

market applications (for example, real
estate or dental) are still PC-only. Mac+PC
SE also gives the SE an entry into the many
businesses that require any newly acquired
computers to be compatible with certain
standardized pieces of software. If you face
these situations, or specifically need por-
tability as well as PC access, the PerfecTek
Mac+PC SE is a good value.

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hi this new column, I'll look at profirams and pe-
ripherals that don't qualify for a separate review,
but that could nevertheless make a hi^ difference
in the convenience, efficiency, and power of
your computing. / also hope to sate you from the
painful e\perience of shelling out $49.95 for a
DA or utility that is limited, impractical, bug-rid-
den, or that doesn't perform as advertised. And,
finally, because the ease of creating small pro-
grams encourages redundancy, I'll try to sort
out The Wonder DA from The DA Wonder and
help you decide which is best for you.

A 70 Percent Solution

If you want to use HyperCard but
don’t have enough memory, you
have a problem. And, even if you have
enough memory to run the program but
not enough to run it under MultiFinder,
you are probably feeling frustrated because
you have to quit your application to access
a stack. HyperDA version 1.01 (Symmetry
Corporation, $69) provides a 70 percent
solution to these problems. It allows you to
access HyperCard stacks througli a DA. So
your electronic telephone directory or date-
book can sit where it belongs: next to the
alarm clock or calculator when you’re
using an application. Using HyperDA, you
can browse through stacks and even copy
text or graphics from a card and paste it
into the application.

The only thing you can’t do is alter the
stack; hence the missing 30 percent. This
can be frustrating. For instance, if a tele-
phone operator gives you a new number,
you have to write it on a scrap of paper and
remember to type it into HyperCard later.
But HyperDA goes a long way toward mak-
ing HyperCard usable for everyone.

One of HyperDA’s best features is the
option of displaying the stack in a full
screen, just as it would appear in Hyper-
Card, or in a window The window option

enables you to resize and move the
stack around the screen. Hyper-
DA includes the full range of
HyperCard navigational tools, in-
cluding First, Next, Last, and Find. The /
Find box also accepts most Hyper-
Talk navigational messages, such as
"Go to fourth card.” Another advan-
tage of HyperDA is that its manual and
tutorial are easier to follow than the
HyperCard tutorial; so if all you want
to do with stacks is browse, Hyper-
DA can shorten your learning
time.

HyperDA has one potential prob-
lem — it doesn’t support all of HyperTalk,
HyperCard’s programming language. So
some browsing functions of some stacks
may not work properK'. While I haven’t
experienced difficulties with any of my
stacks, Symmetry estimates that 10 to 20
percent of stacks might pose a problem.

Macro Mania

I hate to remind you of this. But just
for a minute, sit back and remember the
last time you got angry at Excel. Here’s
mine: I was working on a worksheet where
I often had to add new rows, which meant I
had to leave the cell 1 was working on, se-
lect the row, choose Insert from the Edit
menu, wait for the new row to appear, and
then find my way back to where I was
before.

I now have a macro that inserts a row
under the one I’m working on with one
keystroke, and it works without forcing me
to move from my cell. It’s part of a package
of handy macros called 101 Macros for Ex-
cel (Micropak International, $69.95).

A macro enables you to perform a
function that would normally require any
number of keystrokes, mouse actions, and
commands, with one Option-§€-letter se-
quence. Although you can create macros
yourself, the package takes that compli-
cated and tedious task off your hands. 101
Macros for Excel contains format, align-

ment, and border macros; cursor- and win-
dow-control macros; database, charting,
and editing macros; and more. There is a
macro that allows you to “visit” another
part of your worksheet and then return to
where you started. There is one to overlay
windows. And there is a set of macros that
leads you step-by-step through the process
of building and accessing a database.

The package has one of the best-
organized manuals I’ve seen. In the out-
side margin of each page is the name of the
macro and the keystroke sequence needed
to run it. In the center of the page, short
paragraphs explain what the macro does
and how it works, and offer suggestions
about how to use it to full advantage. The
macro instructions are clear and concise,
and each one is independent of the others,
so you have to read only about those you
are interested in. If you use Excel, I guaran-
tee that you’ll find things of value here.

Spreadsheet Sleuthing

Making an adventure game out of Ex-
cel might seem like trying to jitterbug to
Mozart. But Templates of Doom version 1.0

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(Solar Systems Software, $49.95), an adven-
ture-mystery puzzler that is really an Excel
template, is ingenious, witty, and fun. It’s
the kind of thing you’ll plan to work on for
a few minutes while taking a break from
your spreadsheet and then find yourself
still working on it an hour later. But it’s
tough, and it will probably be frustrating to
most beginning — and even many inter-
mediate — Excel users. The program pre-
sents you with 24 puzzles of increasing dif-
ficulty. Each puzzle is a spreadsheet in
which the name of a weapon, location, vil-
lain, or other clue is hidden. The clues be-
come visible when you manipulate the
spreadsheet in the correct way. For exam-
ple, you might have to sort certain col-
umns, realign data, delete cells, or extract
database information.

Templates of Doom also teaches Excel
by providing four levels of assistance. The
first tw^o levels furnish hints. The third lev-
el tells you how' to find the clue by refer-
ring you to Excel’s help file and sometimes
to the manual. For example, if the program
tells you to delete certain cells and sort the
remaining data in ascending order, the
third level will explain w^here to find infor-
mation on deleting and sorting. The fourth
level of assistance triggers a macro that
solves the puzzle for you. But watching Ex-
cel run through a macro (even though it
does so in steps) is very confusing, so
you’ll probably use the fourth level only
wlien you’ve given up and want to move on
to the next screen.

Your score is based on the time it
takes to discover the clue plus a penalty de-
termined by the difficulty of the puzzle or
the level of assistance you have used. The
program compares your score for each
puzzle against a par score and assigns a
designation to your effort ranging from
“Outstanding” to “Are you trying?”

Templates of Doom will teach you
new Excel tools and functions and give you
practice with those you already know^. But
do not buy it if you are a beginner hoping
for a painless method of learning Excel
basics — it’s simply too hard. For example,
to solve one puzzle, you have to guess that
you must apply the MID function, an ob-
scure utility that almost no one uses in real
life. This is for the Excel aficionado.

Getting the Touch

Using a typing program is one of the
best ways to learn to type. The program au-

tomatically flags your errors, times you,
pinpoints your weaknesses, and provides
exercises to help you improve. That’s prob-
ably the reason Typing Tutor IV (Simon &
Schuster Computer Software, $54.95) has
been one of the top five educational pro-
grams for many months. Recently two new^
packages, Type version 1.0 (Broderbund
Software, $49.95) and Typing Instructor
Encore (Individual Software, $49 95), have
throwm their hats into the ring.

Typing Instructor Encore has two sets
of lessons: Learning Key Locations and
Building Speed and Accuracy. The first set.

which deals with specific keys, does not
monitor you for speed and accuracy. In-
stead, if you make an error, the w^ord you
were typing disappears and you have to re-
type it. While I’m not an expert in educa-
tional theory, this seems to be a good way
to learn. The speed-and-accuracy section
offers the traditional approach that flags er-
rors and displays speed and error percent-
ages. After you complete an exercise, you
can take a test made up of your mistyped
words. Typing Instructor Encore also has a
number of standard tests, including a few
that cover skills on business and technical
materials. Another unique feature of the
program is its section on word processing
functions such as Cut, Copy, Paste, and De-
lete. The package also has a video game in
w^hich a lobster, which you set to travel at a
w'ords-per-minute speed, chases your
words as you type.

While Type has only the traditional
speed-and-accuracy mode of practice, it
offers a wider range of features than most
other typing programs. For example, you
can specify the letters you w^ant to practice

rather than selecting from a limited num-
ber of lessons. Type also contains lessons
on such problem areas as frequent patterns
and mirror images. When you finish an ex-
ercise, not only do you get speed-and-accu-
racy reports, but the screen displays the
number of mistyped words and specifies
your weak letters as well. If you do espe-
cially well or poorly on a lesson. Type sug-
gests another lesson to move to. After you
finish a lesson, you can take a weak-letter
drill made up of your frequently mistyped
letters. Also, Type offers more graphs than
most typing programs do — graphs that
measure strength on different row's of the
keyboard, on each finger, and on each let-
ter; there’s even a graph that shows the
prevalence of different types of errors such
as misshifting, transposing letters, or typ-
ing from the wrong row.

The action game that comes with Type
is also more imaginative than those in oth-
er typing programs. It show\s two hurdle
runners in a stadium; one represents your
typing speed, the other a goal you specify.
If you make an error, your runner trips and
slows down. There is even a pretty good
sound effect that simulates heavy breath-
ing, so the people next door might wonder
wlio is in the room with you.

I like Type because I like to graph
things. If I’m wTiting a book, I graph how
many w'ords I write each day; I graph my
sources of income; and my friends accuse
me of graphing how^ many dates I have
each month (that’s not true). But I’m not
sure that graphs or nice video games
translate into pedagogic value. For most
learners, any of these programs will suf-
fice — buy whatever is on sale.

Cute and Not So Dumb

Thingi (Advanced Gravis Computer
Technology; $7.95) is a poor person’s copy
holder. It’s a 2-by-lO-inch paddle that at-
taches to the top of the Mac with Velcro
strips, and from which you can hang a few
sheets of paper. Frankly, it looks a bit silly,
and its cutesy name (pronounced Tbmgee)
bothered me at first. But on reflection I
thought, why not? It’s cheap, it takes up
little space, and it works. — Lawrence
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• MindWrite 2.0 Features

• Spell Cheddng and Proofreading

Award-winning Spellswell spell
checker and proofreader inte-
grated for the first time into a
word processor.

Check only those paragraphs
changed since last check for
improved performance.

Global word replacement.

Checks for double-word errors.

Checks capitalization of proper
nouns.

Checks capitalization and spacing
after periods.

Checks homonyms.

Wildcard guess.

Automatic guess option.

Expandable dictionary.

Alternate main and document
dictionaries.

Legal and Medical dictionaries
available.

• Extensive Document Import and Export

Open Microsoft Word, MaeWrite,
ThinkTank, or Text Only docu-
ments directly.

Save documents in Microsoft Word,
MaeWrite, or Text Only format.

With the UlndV^riioExpress option,
open and save documents in
WordStar, WordPerfect, Multi-
Mate, DCA-RFT,WangVS,VAX
WPS + and other standard
formats.

Read and write documents over
AppleShare and other network
servers.

For page layout, PageMaker now
opens and places MindWrite
documents directly.

• Improved Performance and Color
Support

Faster pagination, search and
replace.

Select text and navigate outlines
with arrow keys.

Additional key equivalents.

Highlight selection, display and
print graphics in color.

• User-Defined Labels

Label headings with diamonds ( ♦ )
or Chicago, Harvard, section
number, or custom formatted
markers.

Label body text with bullets (•) or
numbers.

Labels are renumbered automati-
cally when you move items.

• Unlimited Windows

Open as many windows as your
Macintosh allows-on one or many
documents simultaneously.

Scroll using standard scroll bar or
arrow keys.

Use standard zoom plus unique
tiling to give windows convenient
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Access any window instantly from
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• Viewing Options

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New Products

Information on the Mac's latest software,
hardware, and accessories

Edited by Suzanne Stefanac

This section covers Macintosh products
formally announced but not yet evaluated
hy Maavorld, All prices are suggested
retail. Please call vendors for information
on availability.

SOFTWARE

A Sucker in Spades Hypertext mystery sto-
ry set in postwar Los Angeles. Interactive
narrative. 512KE min. memory. $15. East-
gate Systems, 617/782-9044.

Archie Recording-studio management soft-
w^are system for automating client and pro-
ducer tracking, inventory, timesheets, in-
voices, and statements. 1MB min. memory;
requires hard disk. Single user $795; 2 to 4
work stations $1095; each additional user
$100. Words and Deeds, 213/255-2887.

Clip Art 3-D, Image Folio Clip Art 3-D fea-
tures more than 2500 professionally pro-
duced 3-D objects and fonts that can be
customized. Image Folio contains over
4000 photographic images and an editing
program for customizing the TIFF files in
the database. Requires CD ROM reader.
$399 each. NEC Home Electronics,
312 / 860 - 9500 .

Coins/Plus Description and latest market
value for over 2300 United States coins for
collectors. 51 2K min. memory. $95 plus
$1.75 s/h; $25 upgrade each January. Com-
pu-Quote, 818/348-3662, 800/782-6775.

Computerized Classic Bookkeeping Ac-
counting client write-up system organized
according to traditional original-entry
bookkeeping format. Based on Excel, CCB
supports cash disbursements, cash re-

rile Edit Notes

A Sucker in Spades

ceipts, payroll, general, recurring, wage ac-
crual, and nonstandard journals. Search
and error-detection capabilities. Produces
full-color charts and graphs. Requires Mac
Plus; 20MB hard disk recommended. $995.
Absolute Solutions, 800/633-7666,
800/458-3399 in California.

Comstock Desktop Photography Collection
of 500 stock photographs from leading
photo agency on 5-inch CD ROM. 132-page,
full-color catalog. $500. Comstock,
212/353-8686.

Copyrights, IFademarks, & Patents Compre-
hensive coverage of U.S. government
guidelines concerning copyright, trade-
mark, and patent registration. Includes the
necessary application forms. Aimed at busi-
ness professionals, writers, composers,
software developers. $49.95. Aardvark
Development Labs, 713/872-8085.

Crapsmaster Simulates the casino game of
craps; enables players to learn the game
and test betting strategies. 512K min. mem-
ory. $39. Centron Software, 800/848-2424.

Dreams Integrated set of design tools:
Draft Palette for bezier and spline curves,
freehand shapes; Accessory Palette for
zooming, rotating around various axes, ex-

tending lines to intersection, creating fil-
lets, adding and deleting handles within
polygons, gluing and ungluing edges, add-
ing and subtracting objects; Dimension
Palette for point-to-point and object-
dependent dimensioning in horizontal,
vertical, and slope directions. Tools func-
tion interactively through add-on modules.
Compatible with all MacDraft documents.
Full Mac II color support, layers (limited
only by memory), high-performance zoom
(up to 32-times), advanced text-handling,
PostScript compatibility. LMB min. mem-
ory; requires hard disk. $500; $200 to Mac-
Draft owners registered before July 30,
1988. Innovative Data Design,

415/680-6818.

edifice Integrated program for elected offi-
cials. Modules for administrating, account-
ing, constituent tracking, legislative track-
ing, desktop publishing, and telecommuni-
cating. Requires Mac SE; 20MB min. mem-
ory with hard disk. $1495. Stagecoach Tech-
nologies, Inc., 602/266-1179, 800/882-7243.

Facts and Faces of U.S. Presidents Educa-
tional stack in game format for teaching
facts about U.S. presidents. Instructors can
read student passwords and print scores.
1MB min. memorv $49.50. Visatex Corp.,
408/866-6596, 800/722-3729.

FamilyCare Assists in evaluating and treat-
ing children’s health problems. Easy-to-fol-
low directions and recommendations for
nonemergency medical conditions. Sug-
gests over-the-counter medications and
dietary changes. 512K min. memory. $99.
Lundin Laboratories, 800/426-8426,
313/559-4561.

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.Maworld 259

Real Action. Real Sound. Real Fun.

Around one corner there’s a fire-
breathing dragon. Around the
next, the torturer cracking his
whip. Any second you may get an
arrow in the back. This must be
Dark Castle. Your quest is to topple
the evil Black Knight in battle. But
first you must fight the horde of nasty
defenders. Relentless action, stunning
graphics and more than 70 digitized
sounds explain why Dark Castle has won
top game awards from both Macworld and MacUser.

If scary old castles aren’t your taste, picture yourself
strapped into an attack helicopter with a
do-or-die mission behind enemy lines.

Now you’re ready for Apache Strike?' This
arcade-style game pits you against
defending tanks and helicopters
as you fly your chopper
through the urban canyons
of enemy cities. You get help
from L.I.N.D.A., the sweet-voiced on-
board computer who warns you of “enemy
behind” or “fuel pod damaged.” But the ultimate
test in Apache Strike is your flying skill — and your nerve.

So you think the castle is safer after all? Think again.
And welcome to Beyond Dark Castle, which picks up where
Dark Castle left off. The Black Knight has returned, but

venomous snakes, flying
vultures make him even
scenes, more sounds
finale combine to make
to Dark Castle.

System Requirements:

Macintosh Plus, SE or
Macintosh II. Suggested
Retail Price: $49.95 each

monkeys and screaming
harder to reach. Scrolling
and a cataclysmic
this a worthy sequel

Silicon Beach Software, Inc.
P.O. Box 261430
San Diego, CA 92126
(619) 695-6956

Macintosh is a registered trademark
of Apple Computer. Inc Apache
Strike is a trademark of
Silicon Beach Software. Inc.

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New Products

Inspiration Outlining and idea-organizing
program. Creates free-form diagrams that
can be printed as presentation-quality ma-
terial. 512KE min. memory. $149. Ceres
Software, 503/245-9011.

Instrument Archive Instrumentation data-
management system for consulting engi-
neers, construction contractors, plant
engineering departments, and plant main-
tenance departments, as well as petro-
chemical, chemical, pulp and paper, and
mining industries. Entry and retrieval of
highly specific technical data and specifica-
tions for industrial instrumentation; data-
base size limited only by memory (2000 in-
struments can be completely specified with
20MB hard disk). Generates indices, re-
ports; allows search queries; data import/
export using ASCI 1/Text, DIF, and SYLK for-
mats. 2.5MB min. memory; requires 20MB
hard disk. Single-user license $2500. Desk-
top Engineering Ltd., 604/980-9619.

LaserPak 100 Four double-sided disks with
30 shareware laser fonts, 60 PostScript files,
and 7 laser utility programs. 512KE min.
memory. $25 plus $4 s/h. Budgetbvtes,
913/271-6022, 800/356-3551.

Learn 88 Series of four tutorials for Adobe
Illustrator 88. Each module — Beginning Il-
lustrator 88, Intermediate Illustrator 88,
Creating Special Effects, and Precision
Drawing Techniques — includes audiotape,
practice disk, and summary card. 1MB min.
memory. Each module $49. Personal Train-
ing Systems, 408/559-8635.

Lunar Rescue Space adventure. Players
search for stolen control crystals that main-
tain automated lunar defense network.
Combines graphic action with need for en-
trepreneurial skills. 512KE min. memory.
$59.95. PCAI, 612/427-4789.

Lung Cancer Staging — A llitorial Designed
at the University of California San Diego
Medical School as introduction to the inter-
national TNM classification for Staging
Lung Cancer and American Thoracic Soci-
ety’s Lv mph Node classification. Divided
into three parts: Tutorials, Quizzes, and
Management. 512K min. memory. $75.
Chariot Softw^are Group, 619/298-0202.

Matlab Integrated analysis program that
specializes in matrix computation, numeri-
cal analysis, signal processing, and graph-

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260 September 1988

Develop your ideas
in Digital Dario'oom.

1 A classic arch be-
comes the anchor for
this surreal composi-
tion. After eliminating
unwanted areas, a stair-
step design is added.

2 After being cut
from its background, a
skyscraper is added. A
false bottom is created
with simple retouching.

3 ^ifh the help of
automated paste con-
trols that replace tedi-
ous pixel editing, the
waves wrap around
the arch.

4 Using brightness
and contrast controls,
dramatic clouds are
salvaged from an
underexposed original
and then pasted into
the background.

5 Finally, the chil-
dren step out of an
otherwise ordinary
photo — with the help
of the Magic Wand
automatic selection
tool — to add the key
dramatic element to
the composition.

Imagine a computerized darkroom... in your
Macintosh.® Software that gives you more control
over grayscale images than even the most skilled
photographer. That’s Digital Darkroom.”*

Unique “intelligent” tools eliminate much of
the work in creating dramatic compositions,
whether you’re a beginner or a professional. You
can automatically select objects using the Magic
Wand, or blend one image into another with simple
slider controls. You can freely slant, stretch or
rotate your image to get precisely what you want.

For detailed retouching, you have brushes
and filters that blur, sharpen, smudge or create
complex textures and other special effects. You
can even outline shapes in your images automati-
cally with AutoTrace.™

And when it’s just right on-screen, the exclusive
Advanced Halftone printing option will give you the
smoothest grays and sharpest detail you’ve ever seen
on a 300 dpi laser printer — even on non-PostScript®
language printers.

From simple retouching, to the wildest flights of
imagination, develop your ideas — in Digital Darkroom.

Suggested retail price: $395.
Special introductory price: $295.

System requirements;

Macintosh Pius, SE or Macintosh II

Silicon Beach Softwcire, Inc.

9770 Carroll Center Road, Suite J
San Diego, Ca 92126 • (619) 69S6956

Digital Darkroom and AutoTruce are trademarks o/ Silicon
Beach Software, Inc. Macintosh is a registered trademark of
Apple Computer. Inc PostScript is a registered trademark of
Adobe Systems Inc.

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SOFTWARE

New Products

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All of us purchased our Macs for managing data of one type or another. And although there
have been data base programs since the Mac was first introduced, using them made you
wonder what the fuss was all about. Their performance made you question why you bought

your point
mation, you
and feel like,
using just to
part number
form? Well,
happy to tell
has changed.

and click Mac in the first place. When it came to organizing infor-
were forced to live with their idea of what a data base should look
After all, how useful is it really to have to exit the program youVe

check
fill

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Introduc-

ing DAtabase'^^ , the first full featured Data Base Desk Accessory . Now you decide
what your data base will look like. You add the graphics. You set the fonts. You decide what
features to add. But you don't have to decide when and where to use it. Because as a Desk
Accessory, DAtabase™ is available all of the time. And while having all of the power of
a data base at your fingertips makes DAtabase^^^ a great choice for managing your data,
having features that even the most sophisticated programs lack makes DAtabase^^ an
unbeatable value. DAtabase^^' : Information Management, Macintosh style.

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ics. Accepts commands in standard mathe-
matical notation for matrix operations.
Interactive graphics with color on Mac II
and data interface with FORTRAN and
C-Language. Mac Plus or SE with 68020 ac-
celerator board and 68881 math coproces-
sor can take advantage of Matlab s Mac II
features. 1MB min. memory. $895; $395 for
universities. The Math Works, 617/653-1415.

McCPrint C source-code beautifier and re-
formatter that is multiwindowed and menu
driven. Fully conforms to Macintosh user-
interface standard. Allows easy, simulta-
neous manipulation of multiple large
source-code files. Controls formatting and
alignment of comments, placement of spac-
ing and braces, and alignment and break-
ing of continuation lines. Includes editing
and search functions. Works with most Mac
and non-Mac C compilers. $59 95. MMC AD
Systems, 408/263-0781.

Mr. Postman Exams

Milo Mathematical problem-solver that is a
WYSIWYG technical word processor, sym-
bolic algebra program, and graphic tool.
512K min. memory. $250. Paracomp,
415/543-3848.

ModaCAD A fashion CAD system with im-
age processing, pattern generation capa-
bilities, and an extensive library of block
patterns and templates. 2MB min. memory
$5000- $30,000. ModaCAD, 213/271-7704.

Moebius: The Orb of Celestial Harmony Fan-
tasy role-playing game with real-time, ani-
mated martial arts combat simulator. In
Asian setting, players face wild animals,
natural disasters, and human opponents of
increasing skill in their quest to perfect
their concentration. 512K min. memory.
$39.95. Origin, 603/644-3360.

Mr. Postman Clerk-Carrier Entrance Exams
Tutorial stack for preparing for the United
States Postal Service Clerk-Carrier En-

Retriever

trance Exam. Practice routines in Address
Checking, and Memory for Addresses. Fea-
tures include Elapsed Test Timer, Score
Evaluation Chart, Final Score box, and a
copy of Barron’s Test Prep Series: Postal
Distribution Machine Clerk Examina-
tion. 1 MB min. memory. $24.95. Mr. Post-
man Software, 702/646-1303.

PerfectStudy Organizes study materials
through the association of ke words and
definitions. Modules created from course
materials ask questions, then repeat in ran-
dom order those answered incorrectly.
128K min. memory. $79.95. Powerware,
801/224-5033.

PT-109 Torpedo boat simulation, set in
Solomon Islands or Mediterranean. Player
can go after submarines with depth
charges, torpedos, surface guns. Multiple
levels of play, 45 different missions, night
and day. 1MB min. memory. $49.95. Spec-
trum FloloByte, 415/522-3584.

Retriever Desk accessory accesses list-
based data without leaving the current ap-
plication. Can export to other files and cre-
ate custom Retriever file with matching
HyperCard stack, as well as sort, search for,
and print stored information. 512K min.
memory $89.98. Exodus Software,
513/522-0011.

SPP Analog signal processing program
that analyzes linear and nonlinear systems
and their effect on user-specified time-

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I "^DAtabasel simplifies importing by
automatically creating DAtabase"^^ files
for you from text files and other formats.
Selective field import is also available.
Also, DAtabase”^ provides a unique merge
feature for two separate files.

Background Pictures

^DAtabase] lets you create as many background pictures as you like.
Picture Fields _

Organize your clip art in picture fields, ^^tabaael lets you have
multiple picture fields per record to more easily view your clip art.
T yp^ Styles ■-

Each r^DAtBbase\ file can have multiple fonts and sizes with full
control of justification. You can also choose border styles for fields.

Calculation Fields

Use these fields to process your forms and financial figures.

XTRA Features^^' _

With the advent of XTRA Features™, ^PAtabasel brings state of the
art external procedures to the Macintosh Desk Accessory. With them
you can add as many features as your imagination allows!

...and there's more!

Auto copy complete records.

Browsing feature for self a.nimated presentations.

Compatible with Mac Plus. SE, II. Color on Mac II.

Detailed reporting with multiple rule based searches.
Exporting of selected records from the DA.

Extensive printing options.

Global or fiEld specific find feature. ^

Marking capabotty on selected records.

Not copy-protected.

On-Line help.
Password protection for each file.
Sophisticated art grabber for all pictures

TQ.EPHONE DIALING.

Time and date stamp on each record.
Unique MiniFlnder interface for data rles.

Up to nnv fields per record.
Windows for data files can be any size.
Works with System 6.0 and Multifinder.

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"...blows away the competition. Takes up where HyperCard lets off."
"Without a doubt the most innovative Mac product this year..."

'The speed is blinding, the versatility amazing."

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□ Blueprint™- $59.95

□ Label Master™ - $89.95

□ Reading Fun™ - $69.95

□ Easy Envelopes™ - $69.95

□ Exposure™ - $69.95

□ Vantage™ - $89.95

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263

New Products

From the authors of Kids Time"
and ConcertWare"

9{iiinSer9v[aze

TM

NumberMaze helps children learn, explore,
and master the math skills they will need for
the rest of their lives.

Fun and entertaining math problems are
presented with a variety of mazes, graphics,
sounds, and rewards.

• Problems range from simple counting
with graphics for younger children to story
problems for older children.

domain waveforms. Optional CGA, EGA,
and pen-plotter drivers. 512K min. mem-
ory. $125. BV Engineering, 714/781-0252.

SUM (Sjmantec Utilities for Macintosh) Disk
utilities package that restores crashed disks
and deinitialized hard disks and recovers
accidentally deleted files. Also includes
disk partitioning, optimization, fast dupli-
cation, and file and disk viewing and edit-
ing. Based on MacZap. 512KE min. mem-
ory $ 99 . 95 . Symantec Corp., 408/725-2731.

Sun Clock DA that shows where the sun is
shining at any given time on an accurately
drawn map. Can also be used to tell ap-
proximate time anywhere in the world.
128K min. memory $15. MLT Software,
503/245-4093.

' 4 File Edit Uletu Special SunClocIc

Sun Clock

• Math levels for addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division can be
changed to match a child’s abilities.

• Parent/Teacher option for developing a
curriculum that progresses with the child.

TakeOff Custom construction estimation
system for general contractors. Logs dis-
tance and area measurements of objects
digitized with PenMac Graphics Table Sys-
tems. 1MB min. memory. $1995. 4Site Tech-
nologies, 408/475-8444.

• Statistical report on each child’s
performance.

• Rewards and printed certificates available
upon completion of each math level.

Suggested

Retail gc Recommended ages: 5-12

Price Requires: Macintosh 512K

Great Wave Software "

5353 Scotts Valley Dr.

Scotts Valley, CA 95066
(408) 438-1990

Software Excellence For All The Ages^

Products are trademarks of their respective manufacturers

TangentShare Uses a PC as server host, pro-
viding equal access from any IBM PC, PS/2,
or Macintosh, allowing them to store files
and applications on a single storage device,
use the server as a local disk drive, or
transfer files between incompatible sys-
tems. Server and Client software $700.
Tangent Technologies, 404/662-0366.

Tfetris Game designed by two Soviet pro-
grammers. As groups of four squares fall
from the top of the screen, player attempts
to manipulate them into straight rows.

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HKcale 'Knir Macintosh SE.

Mach n/SE “ gives your Macintosh acceleration

and performance

Performance is the name of

the game when you run large com-
pute-intensive applications: CAD,
CAE, graphics, desktop publishing,
office automation. Dove’s Mach n/SE
accelerator with its 68020 processor
gives you performance comparable
to a Macintosh II and it makes
your Macintosh faster and easier
to use than any PC or PS/2™

The Mach II/SE is synonymous
with Value. An advanced product
design guarantees product reliability,
performance and expandability.

The Mach II/SE is ftilly compatible
with Dove’s MacSnap™ FastNet™
and soon to be announced graphics

products— further enhancing

your SE’s applications and net-
working value.

Mach II/SE Benefits

■ Cost effectively quadruples your
SE’s performance

■ Supports maximum memory
configurations up to 5 megs

■ Provides an optional 68881 math
co-processor

■ Programmable LCA technology
coupled with the 68020 equals
flexibility and assures simple
software upgrades

■ Installs easily in 10 minutes

without modifications

■ The best choice for running
processor and memory inten-
sive applications

Like all Dove products the Mach
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Fix, Frame, Freeze in Full Color (24 bits and 8 bits) with

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TV Producer™ board

Turn your Macintosh II into a video
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Quick Tips

Answers to your questions

by Lon Poole

May’s column featured an Excel macro for
performing a search-and-replace of cell
contents. Unfortunately, several lines were
mysteriously cut off In the Fix Cells macro,
cell A5 should end with ‘Pix Cells"'), and
cell A22 should end with GOTO(A27).

Curling Your Quotes

Many people have written to brand as
unnecessarily complicated my suggestions
for converting plain quotes to opening and
closing quotes (see Quick Tips, May 1988).
Alex Lewin of Cambridge, Massachusetts
uses a multistage search-and-replace pro-
cess with his w'ord processor. Assuming
most opening quotes are preceded by a
space, he searches for every space fol-
lowed by a plain quote and replaces each
with a space followed by an opening quote.
In case he has quotes at the start of para-
graphs, he also searches for every end of
paragraph followed by a plain quote and
replaces each with an end of paragraph fol-
lowed by an opening quote. (There may be
other cases in which the opening quote
isn’t preceded by a space, for example, a
quote in parentheses. )At this point, closing
quotes are the only ones left, so he re-
places all remaining plain quotes with clos-
ing quotes.

Repeating the process with single
quotes converts them and all apostrophes
used for contractions, possessives, and plu-
rals. (As with double quotes, some single
quotes ma\' not be preceded by a space, for
example, a quote within a quote.) If the
document uses apostrophes but no open-
ing single quotes, replacing all plain single
quotes with closing single quotes is
sufficient.

Lon Poole answers readers' questions and offers
advice in his monthly Macworld column. Many of
the tips he's compiled can be found in his hook
Mac In.sighi.s (Microsoft Press, 1987).

Incidentally, you can have plain quotes
converted automatically as you type in all
applications. Get the free utility Curlers, by
Tom Phoenix (it’s file CURLER.SIT in data
library 5 of the Mac Productivity forum in
CompuServe’s MAUG). Put Curlers into
your System Folder and the Mac installs it
automatically every time you start up. Once
it’s installed, you can disable or reenable
Curlers on the fly by alternately pressing
the quote key and the Backspace key once
or twice until you get the style you w^ant.

An Open and Close Case

If you open desk accessories while
using HyperCard without MultiFinder, you
may think you must close all the DAs be-
fore you can reactivate HyperCard. Click-
ing the card window to bring it to the front
elicits only a beep. A tip in May’s Quick
Tips suggested using the Windows or Win-
dowsDA desk accessory to work around
this problem. But Joe Lewis Wilkins of
Escondido, California, found that you can
resume using HyperCard without closing
DAs. You simply click the message box, the
tool window, or the pattern window. If the
menu bar is visible, you can also choose
Message from the Go menu or tear off the
Tool or Pattern menu.

Keeping desk accessories open has a
drawback, particularly on a small screen.
DAs always cover the card window, even
when the card window is active. You can
move them out of the w^ay (press the §€
key and drag their title bars to avoid acti-
vating them). You’ll find this particularly
feasible on a large screen — or on a small
screen while using Stepping Out II, a
screen extender.

Easy Legal Pages

Normally, LaserWriter software ver-
sions 4.0 and 5.0 don’t permit printing a
legal-size page on manually fed legal pa-
per without a legal-size paper tray in the
printer. You could use your fingers or the
right-size box to fool the printer into think-

ing it has a legal-size paper tray, as sug-
gested in April’s Quick Tips.

Bruce Pearson of Gardena, California,
and others submitted an easier method.
After selecting the US Legal option in the
Page Setup dialog, click the Options but-
ton. (To access the Options button in Word
3, you must press Shift while choosing
Page Setup.) In the LaserWriter Options di-
alog that appears, select the option Larger
Print Area (Fewer Downloadable Fonts).
Now when you choose Manual Feed in the
Print dialog, the LaserWriter prints a legal-
size page on manually fed legal paper.

Q Hard Disk 20 Start-Up

Is it necessary to use the Hard Disk
20 Start-up disk when starting up a Mac
Plus with the newer Systems? A friend of
mine never bothers with this.

Steven Rosencrans
New Orleans, Louisiana

A Donate that floppy disk to charity.

Put a System Folder on your hard
disk, and your Mac Plus will start up direct-
ly from it. Only a 128K or a Mac 512K that
hasn’t been upgraded with Apple’s 800K
Disk Drive Upgrade kit needs the special
start-up floppy disk. You can get the lat-
est System software for $49 from your
Apple dealer.

Q iype the ^-Key Symbol

In May’s Quick Tips you mentioned
that the Chicago font contains the §§-key
and Apple symbols. How can I type them?
Joan Robertson
Westminster, California

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A If you have an SE or a Mac II you

can type several special symbols in
any application. Use the Chicago font and
then press Control-Q for the i€-key symbol,
Control-R for a check mark, Control-S for
a solid diamond, or Control-T for the
Apple logo.

If you have a Mac Plus, a 512K, a 128K,
or an XL, your keyboard has no Control
key. Although you can’t type the special
symbols in every application, you can type
them in Microsoft Word 3 0 and later ver-
sions. You press §§-Option-Q and type the
code number of the character you want.
With the Chicago font, use code 17 for
the §€-key symbol, 18 for a check mark, 19
for a solid diamond, or 20 for the Apple
logo. You can cut and paste the special
characters from Word to another kind of
document, or to the Scrapbook for later
copying to other documents. Since the
characters lose their font information be-
tween applications, you’ll have to change
the font to Chicago after pasting.

You can also create the special sym-
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tion with the same code numbers as Word.
To create a §€-key character, for example,
type the following command in the mes-
sage box:

put numToChad17)

HyperCard immediately replaces your typ-
ing with an undefined-character symbol (a
small hollow box), which is the best it can
do with Geneva in the message box. Select
the character, copy it, and paste it to the
Scrapbook or another document. After
pasting it in another document, change
its font to Chicago and it becomes the
%%-key symbol.

Q Double Sound Port

DataDesk International’s Hyper-
Dialer is a reasonably inexpensive and con-
venient accessory for using HyperCard’s
telephone-dialing capacity. However, con-
necting it to my Mac SE’s speaker port
reroutes all Mac sounds through Hyper-
Dialer’s tiny, nasal built-in speaker, and the
surprisingly good sound of the Mac’s inter-
nal speaker is completely lost. I’ve tried
dialing through my Apple modem, but the
voice transmission is severely impaired.
How^ can I have my cake and eat it too?
Dave Clay tor
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Speaker Surgery

Hooking up a HyperDialer to your Mac
reroutes all sounds through the Hyper-
Dialer's speaker. You can cut or unsolder
one of the speaker wires (as shown here)
to disable the HyperDialer's speaker.

Plugging anything into the Mac
X JL speaker port cuts out the internal
speaker, unless you open the Mac and re-
wire the speaker port. For less than $2, you
can buy a small adapter that doubles the
number of speaker port jacks (Radio Shack
catalog number 274-310). You can then at-
tach not only your HyperDialer but also a
small external speaker or a stereo system,
either of which provides even better sound
than the Mac’s internal speaker. To silence
the HyperDialer’s speaker, you must open
it and cut or unsolder one of the wires
from the speaker (see “Speaker Surgery’’).
The HyperDialer is glued shut, but you
can gently pry off the bottom and still
reclose it.

Incidentally, the two-way port adapter
is useful for feeding the Mac’s monaural
audio output into both left and right chan-
nels of a stereo amplifier.

Dialing with a modem may impair
voice transmission unless the modem
hangs itself up, releasing the phone line to
your telephone. Most Hayes-compatible
modems, including Apple modems, wait 30
seconds before hanging up. You could in-
clude the modem command S7 = 5 after
the HyperTalk Dial command’s “with mo-
dem’’ parameter to make your modem
hang up after only 5 seconds. However, do-
ing that could interfere with other modem

280 Sc|Xcmbcr 1988

uses. Instead, 1 recommend using a Hyper
Talk Wait command to wait 5 seconds and
then a separate Dial command to hang up
the modem (presumably after you have
picked up the phone). If you’re using the
Phone stack supplied with I h perCard, ad
the following lines near the end of the
stack script, right above the Put Empty
command that precedes the End DoDial
command:

-wait 5 seconds, then hang up the modem (if it was
used)

if hilite of bkgnd button "modem (tone dialing)" or — i
hilite of bkgnd button "modem (pulse dialing)" then
beep 2

put "Pick up the phone now."
wait 5 secs

-hang up modem and reset it to standard settings
send "dial" && quote & quote && — >

"with modem" && quote & "ATZ" & quote
to HyperCard
end if

Q Clicking Word’s Page
Number Area

While using Word 3 01, 1 accidentally
clicked the lower-left corner of the docu-
ment window, where the page number
usually appears. The page number
changed to the word Code in inverse
type. What is it for?

Alfredo Izqtiierdo
Miami, Florida

A Word uses the page number area of
the document window to get infor-
mation from you for completing actions
initiated by the following keyboard
shortcuts:

■ Option-§§-Q, insert a special character
■ Shift-§€-S, apply a style to a paragraph
■ Option-§€-E, change the font
■ §§-Backspace or ^-Delete, insert a
glossary entry

When you type any of these key stroke
combinations, you'll see a word displayed
in the page number area that prompts you
to enter additional information. For exam-
ple, the word Code means you should en-
ter the code number of the character you
want inserted. (Pressing §€-period (.) or
clicking anywhere outside the page num-
ber area cancels the keyboard shortcut.)

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How To/Quick Tips

This copy is set in ten-point Times in
a column twelve picas (72 points)
wide. It is set solid, with no extra
space inserted between the lines, to
facilitate comparing its apparent size
with the two adjacent examples.
Every line is ten points high, but the
larger-bodied fonts take up more
space on the page.

This copy is set in ten-point
Palatino in a column twelve picas
(72 points) wide. It is set solid,
with no extra space inserted be-
tween the lines, to facilitate com-
paring its apparent size with the
two adjacent examples. Every
line is ten points high, but the
larger-bodied fonts taice up more
space on the page.

This copy is set in ten-point
Bookman in a column twelve
picas (72 points) wide. It is set
solid, with no extra space in-
serted between the lines, to fa-
cilitate comparing its appar-
ent size with the two adjacent
examples. Every line is ten
points high, but the larger-
bodied fonts take up more
space on the page.

Font-Size Fakery

Font size measures the
maximum height of
a line of text, not over-
all character size.
These three typefaces
demonstrate how
character size can
vary among different
fonts that have the
same point size.

You can repeat the most recently used
shortcut by clicking the page number area.
The prompt word appears again, cueing
you to type the needed information.

For more details on the lower-left
corner of the Word window, see the topic
Windows in the Word manual.

Q Spaced Out

Suppose I create a document using
10-point New York type and print it on a
LaserWriter using the Font Substitution op-
tion. My bold titles end up with double-
wide spaces between words, and words I
lined up on screen don’t line up on paper.
So following Erfert Nielson’s advice in “Fit
to Print” (April 1988), I changed the docu-
ment from New York to Times. Now my
document is much shorter on screen. Will
it print smaller as well? Why is 10-point
Times smaller than 10-point New York?

How can 1 eliminate the double-wide
spaces and keep words aligned?

Wayne Folia
via MCI Mail

A Fonts are like baseball fans sitting
in the bleachers. Fewer fat fans
than skinny fans fit across a bench. Sure,
height matters — adults are wider on the
whole than children — but height alone
doesn’t tell you how many benches a group
of fans will fill. Likewise, wide font families
such as New York occupy more space on a
line than thin font families such as Times.
Font size measures maximum character
height but says nothing about other charac-
ter proportions, as illustrated in “Font-Size
Fakery.” Unfortunately, there is no way to
measure the way type will actually appear.
You must try each font to see how it fits oh
a page.

You can rely on displayed line breaks
when you are fitting copy on a page. The
Mac maintains them when printing on an
ImageWriier in any print quality or on a
LaserWriter with or without font substitu-
tion. Due to the difference between print
and screen resolution, however, the Mac
may change word and character spacing
slightly on paper to maintain line breaks.
Altliough you can’t do anything about
these changes (except to use fractional
pixel widths in the few applications that
support them), they’re more noticeable
when you’re trying to align text with
graphics. Gaps between words widen with
LaserWriter font substitution because
DiserWriter fonts are narrower than screen
fonts. Compose in LaserWriter fonts to
avoid “gaposis.”

Because the Mac doesn’t maintain
word spacing exactly when printing, words
aligned with spaces on screen may not
stay aligned on paper. Font substitution
worsens the misalignment because a space
character’s width in a screen font differs
from its width in the substitute DiserWriter
font. Use tabs, rather than spaces, for reli-
able alignment.

Print Both Sides Now

Tip: Frequently I have to print docu-
ments on my UiserWriter II on both sides
of a page. Unfortunately, PageMaker and
other applications do not allow you to print
odd-numbered pages in one batch and
then, after turning the paper over, print
even-numbered pages in a second batch. I
have found a method for printing two cop-
ies of double-sided output without sitting
at the Mac and producing one double-sided
page at a time.

First, print one complete copy of the
document. If necessary, arrange the pages
consecutively with page 1 on top. Place the
stack faceup. Take the first two pages ( 1 and
2) and lay them faceup in a new pile. Then
take the next two pages (3 and 4) and place

them faceup on top of the new pile. The
new pile now contains, from the top down,
pages 3, 4, 1, and 2. Continue placing pairs
of pages faceup on top of the new pile.

If the last page is odd-numbered, do not
place it on the new pile; put it aside
for now.

Put the rearranged stack facedown in
the printer’s paper tray, with the top of the
pages toward the printer. Remember not to
put the last page back into the printer if it is
odd-numbered.

Print another copy of the complete
document. You end up with two complete
double-sided copies of the document,
which you only have to separate. This
method works for any even number of fin-
ished copies. “Two-Faced” shows what you
have after the second printing.

Barton M. Bauersjr.

Wallingford, Connecticut

This method ivorks equally well on a
LaserWriter, a LaserWriter Plus, or an
ImageWriter with a sheet feeder.

MacDraw Text on the Edge

Tip: MacDraw normally won’t let you
drag text right to the edge of a drawing. To
get text closer to the edge without adding
more pages to the drawing size, reduce the
font size of the text, drag the text closer,
and then change the font size back again.

Perryf Thierner

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MacPaint 2.0 Shortcuts

Tip: If you hold down the Option key
when starting MacPaint 2.0, you get the
Open dialog box instead of a blank
document.

When the Grabber tool is selected,
dragging while holding down the §€ key
moves the whole window, not just the

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Jivo-Faced

To print a document
on both sides of a
page, print the com-
plete document, re-
arrange the pages in
the order shown, and
place the stack face-
down in the printer.
Then print the docu-
ment again. You* ll get
two double-sided
copies.

drawing. (This doesn’t work when you
press the Option key to temporarily use
the Grabber tool while another tool is
selected.)

Bruce Brodnax
Costa Mesa, California

AutoHilite Means Deselect
Tip: Normally a HyperCard script can
use the container named Selection to get
the text currently selected in a field. But Se-
lection has an empty value after you click a
button whose AutoHilite property is true
(the AutoHilite option is selected in the
button’s Button Info dialog box). Clicking
such a button automatically deselects the
current text selection. To avoid the prob-
lem, make sure the AutoHilite property is
false for any button having or using a script
that includes the Selection container. Ei-
ther deselect the AutoHilite option in such
a button’s Button Info dialog box, or use a
Set command to set the button’s AutoHilite
property to false.

Jeff Lindsay
Appleton, Wisconsin

The automatic deselection you describe
also affects the functions SelectedChunk,
SelectedField, SelectedLine, and Selected-
Text (all available only in HyperCard ver-
sion 1.2 and higher).

You can get the effect of aiitomatic
highlighting and still get the contents of
the current selection. When the mouse
button is down, get the selected text and
then set the button's hilite property to
true. When the mouse button is up, set the
button 's hilite property to false. For exam-

ple, you could add the following three
lines to the beginning of yourMouseUp
script:

get the selection

set the hilite of the target to true

set the hilite of the target to false

This script makes the button flash
when it's clicked. However, the button
doesn't stay highlighted when you hold
the mouse button doivn with the pointer
over it, as buttons normally do.

Q Spacey and Irregular

In preparing my resume using
WriteNow, I noticed that halfway through
the document the spacing between charac-
ters became irregular (after about ten lines
of text, the problem cleared up and did
not reappear). Retyping, cutting, and font
switching all failed to correct the problem.
When I printed the document on my
ImageWriter II, the faulty spacing mani-
fested itself as letters and portions of let-
ters of differing widths.

Michael G. Kaloyanides
Bethany, Contiecticut

A Undoubtedly the gap-toothed dis-
play and lumpy printing occurred
because the affected text was an unin-
stalled font size, such as 11-point or 13-
point. In WriteNow, that can happen if you
press §§-9 or §§-0, the shortcuts for the
Smaller and Larger menu commands. To fix

the bad text, select it all and choose an in-
stalled font size from WriteNow’s FontSize
menu. Installed sizes are always listed in
the menu in outline style.

Self-Adjusting Formulas

Tip: I use Microsoft Excel to track ex-
penses for several tasks in a large project.
In one part of my worksheet, I enter bud-
geted and actual expenses in separate col-
umns for each task, using one row for each
month. (The month names are actually
dates such as 1/1/88, formatted using a
number format of MMM.) I use Excel’s Ex-
tract command to copy each task’s actual
and budgeted amounts for all months into
another part of the worksheet, and a chart
graphs the extracted amounts. Thus one
chart works (with no changes) for any task
in the entire project. By extracting each
task in turn and printing the resulting
chart, I can easily graph every task in the
project. The two areas of the worksheet
and the chart are shown in “One Chart for
All Seasons.”

Excel graphs zero amounts for the
blank actual values of future months. The
zero amounts clutter the chart and skew
the scale of its vertical axis. Each month I
could avoid graphing the future months
by manually resetting the cell range in
the chart’s series formulas. Instead, I use
named cell references in the chart’s series
formulas and define those names using Ex-
cel’s Index and Match functions, which au-
tomatically reset the range of cells to be
plotted. Specifically, I name the range of
cells that contains the dates as DATES, and
I name the cell that contains the current

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■ Bu(jget ■ Actual

30.000

25.000

20.000

15.000

10.000

5,000

0

AB 1 AC 1 AD

AE 1 AF

1

One task extracted from the Database

2

Date

Task 2 Actual Task 2 Budget

Actual I

Budget I

3

Jan

23,715

26,065

24

26

4

Feb

28.246

23,751

52

50

5

Mar

25,101

22,696

77! 73

6

Apr

24,861

25,437

102

98

7

May

23,017

22,696

125

121

8

Jun

21,179

22,696

146

143

9

Jul

22,696

146

166

10

Aug

22,696

146

189

1 1

Sep

22,696

146

211

12

Oct

22,696

146

234

13

Nov

22,696

146

257

14

Dec

27,752

146

285

15

One Chart for
All Seasons
This Excel chart
graphs budgeted atid
actual expenses for
any task in a large
project, from the first
month to the current
month. Changing tasks
or ending with a dif-
ferent month does not
require chatiging any
formulas on the work-
sheet or the chart. Ex-
cel determines the
exact range to he
graphed from named
cell references in the
chart's series formu-
las: the names are de-
fined in the worksheet
using the Index and
Match functions.

A

B

C

D

E

F 1

1 G

1

The Database

2

Date

Task 2 Actual

Task 3 Actual

Task 4 Actual

Task 2 Budget

Task 3 Budget

Task 4 Budget

3

Jan

23,715

28.072

3,317

26,065

30,478

6,741

4

Feb

28.246

29,684

3,754

23,751

30,478

6,741

5

Mar

25,101

29,382

4,803

22,696

30,478

6,741

6

Apr

24,861

33,628

5,232

25.437

30,478

6,741

7

May

23,017

30,057

5,902

22,696

28.545

6,741

8

Jun

21,179

28,810

6,512

22.696

29,601

6,741

9

Jul

22,696

28,545

6,741

1 0

Aug

22,696

28,545

6,741

1 1

Sep

22,696

28.545

6,741

12

Oct

22,696

28,545

6,741

13

Nov

22,696

28,545

6,741

14

Dec

27,752

30,230

6,741

15

Cumulative

146,119

179,633

29,520

284,573

353,013!

80,892

16

1

17

18

1

19

The Criteria for the Extract menu command

20

Task 2 Actual

Task 3 Actual

Task 4 Actual

Task 2 Budget

Task 3 Budget

Task 4 Budget

21

1

date as CURRENT_DATE. Then 1 enter the
following formula in the Refers To part of
the Define Name dialog box for the name
ACTUALS:

= AC$2$;INDEX($AC$2;$AC$13,
MATCH(CURRENT_DATE,DATES,D)

This formula defines the name as the range
of cells from the first date to the current

date. A similar formula, using column AD
instead of AC, defines the name BUDGETS.

The series formula that plots the ac-
tual expense amounts looks like this:

= SERIES! Actual", Expenses! DATES,
ExpenseslACTUALS,2)

A similar series formula plots budgeted
amounts. While entering a series formula,
you can insert a name from a worksheet by

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Name menu command. See page 161 in the
Excel user s guide for more information on
series formulas.

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You ca?7 avoid havmg to redefine the
CURRENT^ATE name every month by
replacing it in your name-defining for-
mulas with ExceTs NOWQ function. And
if you want to index text values instead
of dates (for example, the names of the
months), the last term in the Match func-
tion in your name-defining formulas
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Instant MacPaint 2.0 Tools
Tip: With any tool but the text tool se-
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places the Tool palette’s close box under
the hot spot of the currently selected tool.
If the Tool palette is already open (torn off
the menu bar), pressing the t key closes it.
Similarly, pressing the p key alternately
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Breaking Justified Paragraphs
Tip: In MacWrite, a manual page
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nicality interferes with breaking a fully jus-
tified paragraph at the bottom of a page.
The last line on the page becomes left-
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well into the next line. Then insert the
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hard spaces don’t keep the last line fully
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Getting Started
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From file formats and ASCII to delimiters and
networks, a guide to swapping data

by Jim Heid

I live in rural New England, where there s
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computers isn’t as easy as using the Clip-
board — the Macintosh’s small-scale data-
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let, either. This month we examine data-ex-
change basics and look at ways to transfer
files between programs and computers.

Just between Programs

In an ideal w^orld, exchanging files be-
tween programs would be easy because all
applications would create and save the
same kind of documents. Alas, that world
doesn’t exist — at least not yet. That’s be-

Jim Heid is a Macwx)rld contributing editor who
focuses each month on a different aspect of Mac
fundamentals.

cause every application category — word
processor, spreadsheet, graphics pro-
gram — has its own document-storage
requirements.

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command, the program creates a file on
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memory to the disk file. If you’re using
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you’ve typed and codes that indicate char-
acter attributes such as font, style, and
size. If you’re creating a spreadsheet, the
program saves the values and formulas
you’ve entered, as well as information that
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widths and cell formats. MacPaint data in-
cludes a series of bits corresponding to the
black and white areas of the image. A Mac-
Draw file contains the QuickDraw graphics
commands that represent the drawing.

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scribes the file’s type and its creator and al-
lows the Finder to open the appropriate
application when you double-click the
document’s icon.

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ting codes, and the file signature — is called
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Word as “saved in Word format.’’

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veloper may lose business if a competitor
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gram that understands it. This lack of
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the data-exchange headaches that occur
when one program can’t interpret anoth-
er’s file format.

Headache Remedies

The secret to exchanging data be-
tween programs is finding a file format that
both programs can understand. And the

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liwtDusetype

USE TOE PUBLISHING
PACKS FROM ADOBE.

Do your printed communications
have all the charm of a ransom note?
Do you think Palatino* is a caramel-
colored horse?

Well, first of all, you’re not alone.
And secondly, now there’s help.

Presenting the Publishing
Packs from Adobe Systems.

A Publishing Pack is a group of
typefaces — a typeface task force, if
you will — that works especially well
together in a particular application.

There are three Packs to
choose from. One for newsletters,
one for forms and schedules, and
one for presentations.

Each typeface in each Pack has
been specially selected for its job by
people who really know type and
how to use it And who are willing to
share some of their knowledge with
you. Because inside every Pack is a
how-to booklet from each expert,
with tips on how to use type for max-
imum effect.

There’s Roger Black, noted pub

AHan Haley On Presentations:
“These faces work well over a range
of sizes, but particularly well in
larger sizes. They also have hi^
impact and good readability — just
what you need to make people
remember what they’ve read.”

Allan Haley

Executive Vice President of the Interna-
tional Typeface Corporation. Creates
typefaces. And tells people how to use
them In "fy(t)l.” his how-to column
about typography and communication
that appears in the respected graphic
design journal, U&lc. When it comes to
presentation graphics, he can put on
quite a show.

Typefaces in the Presentations
Publishing Pack:

rrC LUBAUN GJ?APH-
HELVETICA CONDENSED
ITC NEW BASKER\1LI.E’

Erik Spiekermann On Forms:
“Forms and schedules are typically
produced fast, in large quantities,
on not very high quality paper.
These three families will hold up
extremely well under those
conditions.”

V

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Mm Yoit AAin «o»itlotta.

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3

Simple It best

One poini per slide, with as few
wordk and lines as possible. Re-
verse ivpe U beM for slides. Swy
away from all caps. Make graphs
simple and easy to read. A.id use
lots of slides. .Nothing is more
boring than talking for 10 min-
utes to a single slide.

Utfrsigepotts.

Use ivpe and ornaments to guide
the reader ihrtH^h your message.
Things that sav. "Stop here,” This
is important,” This relates to
this* can help add clariflcation
and emphasis. They also add a
little variety. Remember you're
selling not boring!

Attract attention.

Use type si/e and typeface style
(but not more than two) to create
emphasis and add memonbility.
Incidently. boldface works better
than italics for this. It's more
readable and shows up benrr.

Fa«J blta-t ^

This applies to shik$
heads in partarr iiw
Tliey aren't really in
as reacted to. So th^
designed to make ap
quickly, and then il"

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6

Put out the welcome mat.

VMiatever you do, it needs to Ire
inviting. It's competing to time
and attention, two commodities
in far too short supply ilsrse
dayv The wav to make sure your
idea* get their share is to make
your readers or your audience
want to get into what you're
presenting.

Look at what fou’re doing.

From the audience's point of
view. Your perceptions and opin-
ions are absolutely valid. Pretend
you’re one of the perrplc In your

INTERVIEW

lication designer, on newsletters. Call us at 800-29- ADOBE,

Internationally recognized type 415/962-2100 from Alaska and
designer, Erik Spiekermann, on Canada, for more information and
forms and schedules. the dealer nearest you.

And author, typographer, Allan (And youll come to realize that

Haley, on presentations. Palatino isn’t a horse at all, but one

So you just can’t go wrong. of the more than 200 typefaces

With Adobe" Publishing Packs, in the Adobe
you’ll always have the right face in Type Library.)
the right place.

Erik Spiekermann
Erik Spiekermann heads MetaDesign
in West Berlin. Germany, and is an
internationally recognized authority
on typography and design. Widely
published in trade journals both here
and in Europe. The German Post
Office and Herman Miller use his
designs. And now. so can you.

Typefaces in the Forms and Schedules
Publishing Pack:

LUCIDA*

NEWS GOTHIC

UNIVERS*

INTERVIEW

First Impressions

L

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Can a designer who
loves good type, good
design, and good taste
find happiness on a
desktop?

You’ve said that
type is the easiest
and least expensive
way to make a dif-
ference. Would you
elaborate?

T)>pr ta Ikr int
rou kawr W »lutl yom’rr
AaettnrrwA Fjcii lyprter,
Kbr a htanm tier, hik a «ib)tr
danrirf alAiowa IVpratt

ibr tamr trard can ha«r
man, diOrTml ahadn d

Talk about the
three typefaces you
selected for this
Publishing Pack.

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roatraMk and if y««‘rr g o iag
to Iwm arlecva cf lyprfam
ior a p>dihHM)ii yo« atwwM
havr lam wirti tomr ramtrmt

Calkard t* my awaaky and
rk«ML A food cnatrM to
Franklia (kuliic. «hSdi U
b« and bold. And Crolury

So much great de-
sign has already
; been done without
computers, what's
so terrific about us-
ing one?

Th« racliMtuic thm(

! about nmipulmi«llialoor
' pmon can all down, writo.

. tayoot and petal whaievrr
i)wy wiM wbfihrr n'a poetry,
irripn. a booh. <r a nrwiltiarr.

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pktoiyb‘aal«aininiRfiatr
Yaw c»i pnMl and rHW «wl
comci ihin(« wMaotly. b*%
bkr haatne your own print-
ins prrM and lypr houtr. la
tact k'f not fito that at all
- Thal'a raadly whal yoo have

IWifl/5 the major
. advantage of desk-
top publishing?

' dnistwr OMrkrd up type only
; lohavrilromrbaHiamlirak
tar Ibrrr’i aumrihins wrons
with band k haa to br ami
back and annitwr day ia tuwr’
Oo dir drakup. yoo aim-
piy do k uMil you arr cm>-
, pieirtyluppr

' If there was one
typographic design
rule to break, what
would it be?

Tkrrr rtaiy M no rulr dial
ranybrbndim Tikrlhrsnd
lor tnucnplr. you alwuld br
abir to pbv wkh k and not lakr
k loo Mtinuaiy. tl’a Ihrrr aa a
Cuidr. but U you donY icoorr
M aooKtknra. rvrrylhins you
do waO look berins Anrthrf
ddns K tbmr ia no aurb
Iblns an <br nsbl typrfacr. lor
rnaoptr. tbit pace nuy ha«v
wurkH oicafr wkhikraw
•wrrt art in Frankbn CoiMr
TVmi. My |a»nl la. you ha»r
ID rapnimmi a kk In srl a
good aokMioo. Itul'a onr of
itir mi ainnupb* taint a
coiapinrr. yon can ebansr

how Ihr nrw anting looka

Are there some tips
you’d tike to pass
along to anyone
who is desiming a
newsletter?

Fim 00. birr a imfraiiinn
alAausba.) Krrpibrrapytoa
inlaunuro Thaili Irf you t«l
Ihr lypr up buDtrr. The oihrr

Tell US your
thoughts about
the design of this
Interview page.

'nuap^iaabaaicSoal-

aonuar of Par to rmd ihrar
daya, aa youYr gains to want
to make k aa drairablr and aa
raay to irad aa poMiUc. Make
Ihr draigti aunpir Try lor
rwntra* DonY avrrage r««ry-
Ihiag on. H yon hn«r iaaor-
ilc pobhcnt i ona. kakalrlhmv

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; toped ihr anrand m h ntui
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: Gothic Hravy) rmtm Ihr
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thoughihiliy, is giHiig to

iratioa Thia trthaology s a
torcr iKal ia going to anwr
rwrybody up to arhetr wr

Ro0er Black On Newsletters:

“With these three typeface families,
you’ll have good contrast, excellent
legibility, and a great deal of versa-
tility. In other words, you should
be able to do just about anything in
a newsletter.”

Roger Black

Former director of editorial art for
The New York Times, and chief art
director at New York, New West,
and Rolling Stone magazines. Rede-
signed Rolling Stone and Newsweek.
Internationally sought after as a
publication designer. You should see
what he can do for a newsletter.

T>pct'accb in the
Newsletter Publishing Pack:

CENTURY OLD STYLE
ITC GALLIARD*

ITC FRANKLIN GOTHIC^

Pgigwio and unnr«f & vt 'ecoleird uade»naik» of Lriotyoe AG ana/oi its sufr
sidiar«s ITC T rtnkim Gothic. ITC GaDuid. ITC Lubahn Giaph and ITC New Baskcf vdic arr
registered tradeiiarks of International Type*ace Corporation Lucida is a registered
trademark ol B geiow & Holmes Adobe ii a registered trademark and the Acobe logo is a
trademark ol Adobe Systems incorporated i Copynghi 198S Adobe Systems, me
As rights reserved

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I low To/Getting Started

Format

Application

Pros

Cons

Dociimcni content architecture
(DCA)

VC’ord proce.ssing

Supported by many II^M PC pro-
grams and IBM word proces.sors,
and by MacLink Plus and Apple
File Exchange

Font, style, and size information is
lost

Data interchange format ( OIK)

Spreadsheets and database
management

Supported by many programs and
by MacLink Plus

Cell formatting and widths are lo.st

Encapsulated PostScript ( EPS )

Po.stScript graphics and special
effects

Supported by IBxM \ ersion of

PageMaker

Applies to PostScript printers only

PICI*

Object-oriented graphics

Supported b\’ IBM PC version of
Page.Maker; translators available for
converting to Micro.sofi Windows
graphics

Minimal IBM PC support

Syml')olic link (SM.K)

Spreadsheets anti databa.se
management

Retains some formatting informa-
tion, including commas, column
widths, and cell alignment

Font, style, and size information is
lost

lagged-image (ile format ('l l EE)

Bitmapped graphics

Supported by many IBM PC and
Macintosh scanners; not lied to spe-
cific computer or graphics re.soIu-
lion

Files can be large and time-consum-
ing to load

Rich-text format (RTE)

Word processing

Retains most ft)rmaiiing informa-
tion, including font, styles, and sizes;
supported by Mac and PC versions
of PageMaker

Not supported b\* most Mac word
proces.sors

Common Ground

Sonic popiiktr ciata-twcban^c formats for importing and export ingjites created by different apptications.

most desirable parcel of common ground
is the one that retains the original file s
formatting information — its font attributes,
row and column widths, cell formats,
and so on.

Fortunately, there are some solutions.
Some j:)rograms become so popular that
their formats are deciphered and made
public by independent programmers, or
they’re simply published b\' the programs'
dex'elopers. For example, most word pro-
cessors can open and save MaeWrite files,
and most paint programs can do the same
^^'ith MacPaint files. Likewise, many spread-
sheet programs can handle Lotus 1-2-3
spreadsheets.

If you use one program with a known
format and hav^e another that can interpret
its documents, exchanging files between
the two is easy. You can convert a docu-
ment from the original application by
choosing the second application’s Open
command, then double-clicking the docu-
ment's name. Why not simply double-click

the document at the Finder? Because the
Finder would attempt to open it in the orig-
inal application. (If the original application
isn’t on your disk and you mistakenly dou-
ble-click the document, you’ll get an error
me.ssage saying, “An application can’t be
found for this document.” Don’t believe it:
simply start the second application and use
its Open command.)

Another way to move a file between
programs is to save it in a data-exchange
format — a file format designed for import-
irig and exporting data. Such formats are
usually designed by software developers,
w'ho publish the formats’ specifications for
other developers to use. Microsoft’s Sym-
bolic Link (SM.K) is a popular exchange
format for spreadsheet and database files.
Microsoft's Rich Text Format (listed as
Interchange format in the Word dialog box)
for word processing documents allows you
to swap text without losing character-for-
matting attributes. “Common Ground” lists
several popular data-exchange formats.

Even if none of these solutions applies
in your ca.se, there’s still hope. You can use
a file-translation utility such as MacLink

Plus or Apple File Exchange, provided the
utility supports the file formats you use
(see “Foreign Formats”). If it doesn’t, it’s
time to visit The Last Resort. Standards are
rare in computing, but there is one that al-
low's you to exchange data betw'een any
two computers. It’s the American Standard
Code for Information Interchange — ASCII,
for short — and it’s the lowest common de-
nominator in the world of data exchange.

Nothing but the Text

ASCII (pronounced ask-ee) is a set of
255 codes, each representing a letter, num-
ber, special character, or control code (a
machine function such as a tab or carriage
return). All computers u.se the ASCII char-
acter set; thus, they can exchange text and
rudimentary formatting (tabs and carriage
returns).

Most programs (except graphics pro-
grams) can save and open files containing
only ASCII code. In the Macintosh world,

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Universal macros. Macros you
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Popup menu. The Tempo II menu
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macros, too, virtually without limits.

Repeat for any number of times, or
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Real Time— replay cursor move-
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Foreign Formats

DataViz's Maclink
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tween Mac and IBM
PC applications. Here
the program has been
set up to translate a
WordStar file on the
PC into a Microsoft
Word file on the Mac.

such files are frequently referred to as text-
only. Saving a document as a text-only file
eliminates its formatting information, but
at least you can transfer the text to another
program.

Before you convert a document to
text-only format, be sure you’ve saved it in
its native file format. Next, choose the ap-
plication’s Save As command and select
the text-only option (see “Four Keys to
ASCII"). Give the text-only file a different

name to avoid replacing the original. Avoid
editing at this point, since any changes you
make won’t be saved in the original format-
ted document. For this reason, it’s best not
to create a text-only file until you’re ready
to open the file with the importing
application.

(Incidentally, MacWrite and WordPer-
fect require an extra step when saving text-
only files. You must specify whether a car-
riage return should be put at the end of
each line or only between paragraphs. If

you plan to open the document with a
word processor or desktop publishing pro-
gram, choose Paragraphs. Choosing Line
Breaks will defeat the importing program’s
word wrap feature, making reformatting
difficult.)

The steps required to open a text-only
file in the importing application depend
on the program. With most word proces-
sors and spreadsheets, you can simply use
the Open command. If you haven’t yet
started the application, you can open it and
the document by selecting both at the
Finder (click on one icon, then Shift-click
on the other) and choosing Open from the
File menu. This second technique doesn’t
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soft Works, for example, displays an error
message and tells you to use its Open com-
mand’s Import File option.

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preset font, style, and size values to unfor-
matted ASCII text, so you may want to ad-
just those presets before opening the file
(check the formatting section of your pro-
gram’s manual for such features).

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How To/Getting Started

Boundaries for Bytes

If you need to exchange a spreadsheet
or a database file, use the exporting pro-
gram’s Save As or Export command to cre-
ate a file in a format the importing program
can interpret. If both programs support an
exchange format such as SYLK, use it. Ad-
vanced data managers like dBase Mac, 4th
Dimension, or Double Helix offer many
ways to exchange data. With dBase Mac, for
example, you can enter data to and retrieve
it from ASCII files directly, or you can use
the Print to Disk command to create an
ASCII file containing records that appear in
a given report.

If you must resort to the lowly ASCII
format, you’ll encounter an additional data-
exchange wrinkle. In order to separate the
rows and columns of a spreadsheet or the
fields and records of a database, the pro-
gram must insert codes called delimiters,
which serve as boundaries; they tell the
importing program where one field or cell
ends and the next begins.

The most common field or cell delimi-
ter is a tab character (ASCII code 9); the
most common row or record delimiter is
a carriage return (ASCII code 13). A tab-
delimited text file is an ASCII file whose
data items (cells or fields) are delimited by
tabs. Some programs and programming
languages (such as Microsoft BASIC) use
commas as delimiters. Commas cause
problems, however, since they can appear
within the values themselves (“10,000”,
“Raynak, Margaret”). Programs that delimit
with commas will do what I did in paren-
theses: enclose each data item with quotes,
and then separate each quoted item with a
comma.

If you’re working with programs that
don’t support the same delimited format,
don’t give up. You can massage the export-
ed file using a word processor, changing
the exported file’s delimiters into ones the
importing application understands. For ex-
ample, to format a comma-delimited text
file for importing into Microsoft Works’
database (which can import tab-delimited
text files), open the text file in your word
processor and use its search-and-replace
feature to replace the quotes and comma
delimiters with tab characters. You can use
Microsoft Word, WriteNow, FullWrite, or
WordPerfect (but not MacWrite) to perform
the alterations by specifying tab codes in
their search-and-replace dialog boxes.

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button and choose Text Only. With Microsoft
Works (B), choose Save As and click the Export
File button. With Excel (C), choose Save As and
click Text. With FileMaker Pirn (D), choose Out-
put To from the File menu, select the fields to be
exported, and click the Output button.

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From One Computer to Another

So far, I’ve covered exchanging files
between Mac programs. Swapping files be-
tween computers involves similar hurdles,
and to get over them you have to traverse
the minefields of telecommunications and
networking — the two most common ways
to move files between computers. (For
more details on Mac-PC transfers, see Busi-
ness Clinic, Macworld, July 1988.)

The communications route involves
running a telecommunications program on
both computers and using the programs’
file-transfer features to send and receive
documents. If the two machines are on the
same desk, you can connect them with a
cable. (An ImageWriter 1 cable happens to
unite the Mac with IBM PCs and several
laptop computers, including Tandy’s Model
100.) If the machines aren’t close enough
for a direct link, you must use modems and
the phone lines (see “Getting Started with
Communications Macworld, May
1987, and “Getting Started with Telecom-
munications,” April 1987).

I’ve provided some guidelines to get you
started in “Computer to Computer.”

If you need to swap files with IBM PCs
regularly, consider uniting Macs and PCs
on a network. Both of the leading Mac net-
work products — AppleShare and TOPS —
have PC counterparts, which include
AppleTalk expansion boards that plug into
PCs, and software that lets PCs access Mac
hard disks. With AppleShare, you must ded-
icate a hard disk-equipped Mac as a file
server, a central warehouse for documents
and applications. TOPS works differently,
turning each computer on the network
into a file server (For details, see “Getting
Started with Networking,” Macworld, Sep-
tember 1987.)

Networks enable you to access remote
disks as if they were attached directly to
your Mac. That makes exchanging files as
easy as mounting a file-server volume (the
equivalent of inserting a disk), and open-
ing the file.

But networks can be expensive and
difficult to set up. If you simply need to ex-
change files with PCs, consider a PC disk
drive such as Dayna Communications’ Day-
naFile (see Reviews, Macworld, February
1988). The DaynaFile attaches to a Mac’s
SCSI port and can house one or two 5‘/4-

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How To/Getting Started

Computer to Computer

Here are some tips for using
a communications program
to transfer files between
computers:

■ If you’re using a direct (ma-
chine-to-machine) connection,
make sure your dealer gives
you the right cable and that

it’s properly wired. Standard
RS-232C cables won’t work; the
cable must be wired as a null
modem, which tricks each ma-
chine into thinking it’s talking
to a modem.

■ Make sure the receiving
and transmitting programs are
speaking the same language at
the same speed, or baud rate.
Typical settings for cable con-
nections are 9600 baud, 8 data
bits, 1 stop bit, and no parity.

For 1200-bits-per-second (bps)
modems, use 1200 baud in-
stead of 9600. And to see what

you’re typing, turn on both
programs’ local echo options.

■ Use transfer protocols,
such as Xmodem, to eliminate
garbled data by “proofreading”
data as it’s sent. For Mac-to-
Mac transfers, use MacBinary
Xmodem; it transfers the spe-
cial information in Mac files,
such as an icon’s appearance.

■ Before starting a modem
transfer, the sender and re-
ceiver should match their com-
munications settings and trans-
fer protocols, and decide who
will call whom. If you’re at the
receiving end, put your pro-
gram in answer mode (if
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program’s dial command).
Once you’ve made a connec-
tion, type a few characters to
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transfer commands.

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Another way to shuttle bytes is
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Of course, with networks and other
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Closing the Exchange

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by Jim Heid and Dennis Cohen

Stand up comedian Sinbad uses dBase Mac to keep track of every thing from his jokes to
his gigs. Sinhad takes his Mac with him on the road, here on stage in Las Vegas.

Three years in the making, Ashton-Tate s
dBase Mac took longer to complete than
most Hollywood epics. But many people
seem to think its mix of power, perfor-
mance, and relative ease of use was worth
waiting for.

No relational database is a picnic
to learn, however, and you might dispute
the ease-of-use claim if you’ve puzzled
over dBase Mac’s flashy but flimsy docu-
mentation. To help fill the gap, we’ve col-
lected some hints and tips to improve this
product’s performance.

The dBasics

Mastering dBase Mac requires under-
standing its division-of-labor approach to
data management. Three components
work together in dBase Mac: datafiles,
views, and projects.

A dBase Mac datafile holds informa-
tion about each field as well as the data it-
self A datafile does not tell dBase Mac how
to present data on screen or how to print it;
for those tasks you use views or windows
to a datafile’s contents. The Quick Create
feature whips up quick-and-dirty views for
data entry or browsing. Or, you can use
dBase Mac’s layout features to design views
that mimic paper forms.

k project stores view designs and in-
formation needed to work with datafiles,
but not the datafiles themselves. This ap-
proach lets you use the same datafiles (and
therefore the same data) in any number of
projects. The project tells dBase Mac which
datafiles are required.

Dennis Cohen is a member of Ashton Tate's
dBase Mac development team. Jim Heid is a Mac-
world contributing editor. Portions of this article
were adapted from his book dBase Mac in Busi-
ne.ss, ©1987 by Ashton-Tate Publishing. Used by
permission.

Getting Around Faster

dBase Mac provides many shortcuts
for quick navigation. Besides using scroll
bars to view the contents of a window, you
can use the “Option-drag” technique: press
the Option key and drag the cursor within
the view window. The pointer assumes a
hand shape, and the view goes by like a
roll of paper.

A clever keyboard shortcut lets you
change numerous field definitions quickly.
When you press the Option key with the
Change Field dialog box open, the Done
and Cancel buttons change to Done/P and
Cancel/P, where P stands for prior. Press
§§ , and the buttons read Done/N and Can-
cel/N (for next). Clicking the Done/P but-
ton registers your changes to the current
field’s definition and then displays the pri-

or field’s characteristics; Done/N records
the changes and moves on to the next field
in the datafile. The Cancel/P and Cancel/N
buttons discard changes to the current
field and then display the prior or next
field, respectively. These techniques elimi-
nate having to repeatedly return to the
Structure window to select the next field.

You can also answer Yes, No, or Cancel
to dialog boxes from the keyboard. For
example, when you choose Quit after
changing a project, dBase Mac asks if your
changes should be saved. Instead of reach-
ing for the mouse, just type Y to answer
yes, N for no, or C for cancel.

Like many Mac programs, dBase Mac
provides double-click shortcuts to avoid
side trips to menus and buttons (see “Dou-
ble Duty”). And don’t neglect the palette:
clicking its icons is faster than choosing

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commands from menus. Remember, too,
that you can customize the palette for max-
imum efficiency by adding or removing
icons and by changing their appearance.

Choices, Choices

You can speed data entry and avoid re-
petitive typing by setting up a checklist (in
the form of buttons or a pop-up menu) in-
stead of leaving a blank field to be filled in.
For example, a bookstore manager might
want a Category field that displays five
choices: Fiction, Nonfiction, Reference,
Business, and Tacky Romance.

If you want to change a Category’s list
of choices, there’s an important point that
dBase Mac’s documentation fails to men-
tion: Don’t change the order of the list —
add choices only at the end of the list.

Why? Because when you make a multiple-
choice selection during data entry, dBase
Mac records not the name of your choice
(Fiction, Nonfiction, and so on) but a num-
ber corresponding to its position in the
list. Adding a new choice (say, Cookbooks)
to the beginning of the list would bump all
remaining choices down. Your datafile
would become a jumble of apples and or-

anges as you add new records: cookbook
titles you enter would be grouped with fic-
tion from existing records, and new busi-
ness books would be mistakenly added to
the Tacky Romance roster — a classification
few authors would appreciate.

Multivalued Fields: A Caution

The multivalued field can hold many
discrete values in each record, which can
be very handy. For instance, you can use a
multivalued field named Phone to store
both home and work numbers. But it’s easy
to abuse the flexibility of this type of field.
Just because the program provides multi-
valued fields doesn’t mean you should
use them whenever a field can contain
multiple values.

Consider a database that creates in-
voices. Many people think a multivalued
field is a natural for holding an invoice’s
line items, but that type of field can slow
performance — and it limits your options
for expanding the scope of the database.

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Instead, create a separate datafile for all the
products you carry, including current
prices and brief descriptions for the in-
voice. Establish a file relationship to the in-
voice file and then type in a predefined
code and quantity for each product as you
fill out the invoices and let the program fill
in the description and the cost. This ap-
proach also gives you the option of later
extending the project to automatically up-
date the inventory records based on the
transactions.

Always look twice at the data and how
you plan to use it before defining it as a
multivalued field. If you may want to use
the data in another way — in another proj-
ect or file, for example — store it in sepa-
rate files rather than in a multivalued field.

Toward Hotter Hierarchies

You can control performance by care-
fully crafting your view hierarchies. The
hierarchy drives dBase Mac’s data retrieval;
if a view’s hierarchy contains extraneous
fields, dBase Mac extracts information un-
necessarily. The resulting slowdown is
most apparent in transfer views and col-
umnar display views, since they deal with
multiple records. To bypass unnecessary
information, don’t put fields in the hier-
archy if they don’t appear on the data entry
form or if they aren’t referenced in formu-
las, in sorts or selection criteria, or in
breaks and totals.

Faster Forms through Graphics

If you’re creating a form with a com-
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drawing program such as MacDraw or
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1. In the drawing program, select
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2. In dBase Mac, set Preferences to
specify no fill pattern, an invisible pen (the
dotted-line button), and no titles.

3. Activate the dBase Mac view that
will contain the form and choose Layout
View from the View menu.

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How To/Insights

Perform and Use View

searches,

sorts

Use View

Tivo Views

The diagram shows how much more dBase Mac does when you choose its Perform and Use View com-
mand. With a large database, "performing'* a view may be time-consuming (hence the wrist watch on
the command's icon); therefore, select Use View when your main activity is data entry.

blank form ready for
data entry

saves key
field values

creates
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the first screen that meets
the search criteria

4. Create a fixed graphic element the
size of the form and then paste the form
drawing into the fixed graphic element.

5. Drag the fields into position and
size them as needed.

How to Perform a View

After you design a view, you employ it
by choosing either the Use View command
or the Perform and Use View command.
Sound confusing? Just keep in mind that
these similar-sounding commands have
significant differences.

When you perform a view, dBase Mac
creates a temporary work file (called a
snap file), which contains all the key-field
values that identify the records and allow
the program to retrieve and display them
quickly. Conversely, when you use a view,
dBase Mac doesn’t build a complete snap
file, but simply shows blank data display
items and empty columnar items (see
“Two Views”).

When your main activity is entering
new data, choose the Use View command.
When your main activity is retrieving rec-
ords — especially in columnar form —

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How To/Insights

{field nane»file name} = UPPER( (field nane»file nane})

REDISPLAY ({ field name ‘file name})

ACCEPT

Uppercase Converter

This procedure converts the text you enter into uppercase characters, eliminating the need to press
Shift during data entry and ensuring accurate sorting. It 's especially useful for a field containing
state name abbreviations.

DIALOG 80,120,265,430
BUTTON 1,145, no, 165, 190, "CK"

BUTTON 2, 145, 210, 165, 280, "Cancel"

FIXEDTEXT 10, 10, 80,300, "Only authorized personnel can access
this form. Enter your password and click OK; otherwise, click
Cancel."

EDITTEXT l,90,75,105,200,dunrny
E3SD

typed_password = TEXTVALUE(l)

IF BUTTO^VALUE(2) THEN

EXIT

END

\ Note: replace the "password" below with your password \

IF typed_password ^ "password" THEN

ALERT ("Sorry, incorrect password. ",STCP)

EXIT

END

Password Procedure

This procedure asks for a password before opening the view. \Vhe7i entering the procedtwe, in the
fourth line from the hottotn substitute your choice for the placeholder "password, ” hut leave the
quotes intact.

choose Perform and Use View. Remember
this: perform shows data; use displays the
data entry form.

Data Display Shortcuts

Sometimes the task at hand calls for
including a table of data on the data entry
form rather than individual fields. Two un-
documented shortcuts simplify the work
of making these columnar elements fit the
form or view window.

To create an element that fits within
the view window’s current width, press
Option while dragging the field selection
from the hierarchy to the drawing area. To
create a columnar element to match the
current form width, press Caps Lock, then
press Option and drag the fields into the
drawing area.

With a view containing only one col-
umnar element, you can resize the window
to enclose just that element and then hide
the window’s scroll bars for a tidier look.

To hide the scroll bars, start by choosing
Liiyout View, and then choose Hide Scroll
Bars from the Design menu.

For speed, use columnar views judi-
ciously. When you choose Columnar Lay-
out from the View Type pop-up (in the
New View dialog box), dBase Mac creates
a full-page columnar display item. When
you perform the view, dBase Mac retrieves
all the records that will fit in the display
item — even if they won’t appear on screen.
Therefore, for the sake of efficiency, don’t
select a columnar layout unless you plan to
use all that data — for example, to print a
full-page columnar report or to view a full-
page screen. For browsing data in col-
umnar form, create a custom view with a
columnar element whose height matches
the window’s.

Procedural Potpourri

dBa.se Mac lets you attach command
.sequences called procedures to fields,
views, and files. Procedures are the keys to
dBase Mac’s application-development fea-
tures, allowing you to create custom dialog
boxes, entry-checking routines, and more.
Here are some procedures you can add to
your projects.

The procedure in “Uppercase Con-
verter” uses the Upper text function to
convert the text in a field to all uppercase
letters — a useful function for a field con-
taining state name abbreviations. To add
Delete Verification the procedure to a field, double-click the

When attached to a file, this procedure displays a dialog box that prevents users from inadvertently field in the hierarchy, click the Show*^ Pro-

discarding records.

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DIALOG 60,110,185,400
BUTTON 1,80, 40, 100, 120, "Yes"

BUnm 2, 80, 150, 100, 230, "No"

FIXEDTEXT 20,20, 60,275, "You can*t undo a deletion. Do you
really want to delete this record?"

END

IF BUTTCM/ALUEd) THEN

DELETE (SELF)

END

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cedure button, choose Post-processor, and
enter the procedure.

The slightly longer procedure shown
in “Password Procedure” lets you guard
against unauthorized view access. To attach
this preprocessor procedure to a view, first
choose Define Hierarchy from the View
window, click Show View Procedure in the
view’s hierarchy window, and then enter
the procedure. Thereafter, when you
choose the view’s name from the Windows
menu or from a custom menu, dBase Mac
asks for a password before opening
the view.

When you use dBase Mac’s Delete
command, deletion occurs immediately —
and irrevocably. The procedure in “Delete
Verification” adds a dialog box that re-
quires the user to confirm or cancel the de-
letion. To attach the procedure to a file,
start by activating the Structure window,

double-click the file’s title bar, click Show
Procedure in the subsequent dialog box,
choose Delete Record from the Type pop-
up, and enter the procedure.

Advanced application developers can
access external code procedures using
dBase Mac’s Call statement. External code
resources can extend dBase Mac’s capa-
bilities, allowing it to access data from
a bar-code reader, for example. Exten-
sions can also be used to perform time-
consuming operations quickly, as in “Num-
bers to Text,” a routine in MPW Pascal. It
converts numeric values to English text
strings — a vital job for check-printing ap-
plications. For example, given the numeric
sequence 123, the routine returns the text
string OneHufidred Tiventy -Three. In the
Checkbook Management System that ac-

(continues)

«Call2.bld

fThe following conunands will build the Digit2String CALL resource as CALL 2

♦First we conqjile it
Pascal NumToStr.p

♦Then we link it, note the collection of segments and the renaming thereof
Link -rt CALL-2 3
-m DIG2STR d
-sn Main-DIG2STR,Main d
-sg Main-"DIG2STR" 3
-o Digitstring 3

NumToStr.p.o {PLibraries JPasLib.o {Libraries} Interface.©

♦Correct the path of the output to match that for your system,
rez "NumToStr.r” -o '*DRC80:dBASEfldr;dBASE Mac Resource”

NumToStr.r

include ”DigitString" ’CALL* (2) AS 'CALL* (2, ”Dig2Str", Purgeable) ;

NumToStr.p

UNIT DigitsToString;

{Dennis R. Cohen — Ashton*Tate - 871015}

INTERFACE

USES

MemTypes, {So that Str255 will be. known}

QuickDraw,

OSIntf,

Toolintf,

Packintf; {So that we can get StrToNum}

CONST

{Call constants}
numCallParmsMax - 16;
numCallResrvMax - 18;

{Call data types)

CTStringHandle - 1;

TYPF

CallParmPointer-'‘CallParmBlock;

CallParmBlock-RECORD

callPCount : integer;

Parameter count}

callPTypes rarray [1 . .numCallParmsMax] of Integer; { -> Data types of Parameters)

callParms: array (1 . .numCallParmsMax] of Handle; { -> Call Parameters)

callRType: integer;

Data type of Result)

callResult : Handler-

Result)

callReservediarray (1 . .numCallResrvMax] of Longint;

END;

PROCEDURE Dig2Str (theParms: CallParmPointer) ;
IMPLEMENTATION

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PROCEDURE Dig2Str (theParms: CallParmPointer) ;

Take a numeric string, srcStr, and return the English equivalent, eg:
1025 as input would return

"One Thousand Twenty-Five"
as the result, outStr.

)

TYPE

StrlO

- StringdO];

VAR

srcStr

, outStr: Str255;

decs.

ones, teens: ARRAY

[0.

.9] OF StrlO,

units.

tens, hu, th, tt.

ht:

Longint;

aLong: Longint;

BEGIN

srcStr StringHandle (theParms''. callParms(l] )
outStr

ones[0]

«

' Zero ' ;

teens [0] :- 'Ten';
teens [1] :- 'Eleven';

decs[0] :- ";

ones[l]

-

' One ' ;

decs[l] :« 'Ten';

ones[2]

■

' Two ' ;

teens [2] :- 'Twelve';

decs [2] :- 'Twenty';

ones [3]

>

'Three' ;

teens [3] :■ 'Thirteen';

decs[3] :• 'Thirty';
decs [ 4 ] : • ' Forty ' ;

ones ( 4 ]

m

•Four' ;

teens [4] :• 'Fourteen';

ones [5]

m

'Five';

teens [5] :■ 'Fifteen';

decsiS] :- 'Fifty';
decs [6] :• 'Sixty';

ones [ 6 j

•

'Six';

teens [6] :- 'Sixteen';

ones [7]

•

' Seven ' ;

teens [7] :- 'Seventeen',

; decs [7] :- 'Seventy';

decs [8] :- 'Eighty';
decs [9] :- 'Ninety';

ones [8]

■

'Eight ' ;
'Nine' ;

teens [8] :« 'Eighteen';
teens [9] :- 'Nineteen';

ones [9]

-

StringToNum (srcStr, aLong);
outStr

IF (aLong>-1000000) I (aLong<0) THEN outStr :■ **»*••

ELSE IF aLong-0 THEN outStr :■ 'Zero'

ELSE BEGIN

ht aLong DIV 100000;

IF ht > 0 THEN outStr ;■ Concat (outStr, ones(ht], ' Hundred ');
aLong aLong MOD 100000;
th aLong DIV 0rd4(1000);

IF th>0 THEN BEGIN

IF (th>9) & (th<20) THEN BEGIN

outStr :• Concat (outStr, teens [th-10] , ' Thousand ');

END ELSE BEGIN

tt th DIV 10;

th th MOD 10;

IF tt>0 THEN outStr :■ Concat (outStr, decs[tt]);

IF (tt>0) & (th>0) THEN

outStr Concat (outStr, ones(thj)

ELSE outStr :> Concat (outStr, ones(thl);
outStr Concat (outStr, ' Thousand ');

END

END ELSE BEGIN

IF ht>0 THEN outStr Concat (outStr, ' Thousand ');

END;

aLong :• aLong MOD Ord4(1000);
hu aLong DIV Ord4(100);

IF hu > 0 THEN outStr Concat (outStr, ones(hu], ' Hundred ');
tens :« along MOD Ord4(100);

IF tens > 0 THEN BEGIN

IF (tens>9) & (tens<20) THEN BEGIN

outStr Concat (outStr, teens [tens-10] )

END ELSE IF tens<10 THEN outStr :> Concat (outStr, ones{tens))

ELSE BEGIN

units tens MOD Ord4(10);

tens tens DIV Ord4(10);

outStr Concat (outStr, decs [tens]);

IF (tens > 0) & (units > 0) THEN

outStr :» Concat (outStr, onesiunits])

ELSE IF units>0 THEN outStr :* Concat (outStr, ones [units] ) ;

END;

END;

END;

thePanns''.callRType CTStringHandle;

Setstring (StringHandle (theParms''. callResult) , outStr) ;

END [Dig2Str] ;

END [ Digit sToSt ring)

Numbers to Text

This MPW Pascal routine converts numeric values to English text strings. You can compile it into an
external code resource and access it using dBase Mac’s Call statement.

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Mac HyperCard Tools

Add power to your stacks with XCMDs and XFCNs
from the public domain

by Frank Ripp

Dewi Williams, a
professional Mac
programmer who lives
on the outskirts of
Boulder, Colorado,
produces HyperCard
extensions in the
course of his work and
then distributes them
noncommercially for
others to use.

In the bulging HyperCard stack collections
of Macintosh user groups you’ll find ample
evidence that HyperCard has met a need
by pro\iding a way for nonprogrammers to
design custom Mac software. People who
never dreamed they’d learn Mac program-
ming — notoriously difficult even for pro-
fessionals — are enjoying the satisfaction
of controlling their Macs. But while the
HyperTalk programming language is rela-
tively forgiving of novice programmers, it
does have limitations. That’s why authors
of HyperTalk made the programming lan-
guage as customizable as the stacks them-
selves. They made it an “open” language
that can be extended beyond its inherent
limits through the use of external com-
mands and functions (XCMDs and XFCNs)
written in other programming languages
(see “What Are XCMDs and XFCNs?”).

This article examines 16 especially
handy XCMDs and XFCNs, which are all
available free or on a shareware basis (see
“Where to Find Stacks”).

File-Management Aids

^FileName Steve Mailer’s FileName
was one of the first XFCNs and remains
one of the most useful around. It puts up
a standard Macintosh file selection box,
letting you select files on any drive (see
“FileName”). It then passes the complete
path of that file to your script. Before
FileName came along, HyperCard required
you to type in a file’s complete path name

Frank Ripp is a freelance technical writer living
in Berkeley, California; he specializes in pro-
gramming and writing about HyperCard.

(such as Hard Disk: My Folder: File x) to access
it. You need to have FileName installedio
use the XCMDs DeleteFile and RenameFile.

The short script here shows how you
might use FileName to select an application
and then open it from within your script.
Note that the parameter APPL causes
FileName to display applications only.

You can also choose to have FileName dis-
play all files — FileNameO — text files only —
RleNamelTEXF'l — or stacks only —
FileNamerSTAK"). The variable theFile holds
the path name of the file that the user
selected.

on mouseUp

put FileNamerAPPL") into theFile
if theRle is not empty then open theFile
end if

end mouseUp

^DeleteFile Dewi Williams’s De-
leteFile XFCN lets you delete files from
within your scripts. To use it, you first use
FileName to select the file you want to
delete. Then you pass the name of that
file to DeleteFile, and the file goes into
the great bit bucket in the sky. After using
DeleteFile, you should have your script
check the return code to see if the delete
was successful.

m RenameFile This XFCN, also writ-
ten by Dewi Williams, lets you rename an
existing file. First use FileName to bring
the name of the file to be renamed to Re-
nameFile. RenameFile then asks you to
assign a new name. You type in the new
name, click OK, and the file is renamed.

(continues)

.Maavorlcl 335

I low To/Mac Tools

What Are XCMDs and XFCNs?

XCMDs (external commands)
and XFCNs (external func-
tions) are chunks of code writ-
ten and compiled in a standard
programming language like
Pascal or C. In scripts, XCMDs
and XFCNs work just like any of
the HyperTalk commands, but
they let \ou compensate for
some of 1 lyperTalk’s deficien-
cies. For example, you can ac-
cess hies without having to
type in a long string of com-
mands that are difficult to re-
member. They can also make a
stack s user interface more in-
teresting and easier to use.

How do you take advantage
of them? You hrst install the
XCMDs or XFCNs in your Home
.stack or the stack you are work-
ing on. Install or delete XCMDs
and XP’CNs with any of several
resource-moving utilities avail-
able through user groups and
online services, such as Apple’s
ResCopy, by Steve Mailer, which
works much like the familiar
Font/DA Mcwer (see “Installing
an XCMD”). If you install an
XCMD or XFCN in your 1 lome
card, all your stacks can use it.

If you install it in a particular

stack, it will be available for use
by that stack only. If you plan to
distribute a stack to friends and
acquaintances, install XCMDs
and XFCNs in the stack itself in-
stead of the Home stack. After
you have installed an XCMD or
XI'CN, you program with it
by typing its name into your
script, just as you would any
other HyperTalk command.

You can also use XCMDs and
XFCNs by typing them into
HyperCard’s message box.
Once you get the hang of it, it’s
verv simple.

XCMDs and XFCNs differ
cosmetically and functionally.
All XFCNs return data; XCMDs

* nia edit Go Tool* Objocit

typically do not. Most XCMDs
do not have data passed to
them, but when they do, the
data is enclosed in quotes, such
as "hi there" in the XCMD Talk "hi
there".

An XFCN is always follow'ed
by parentheses, which are ei-
ther empty or enclose data be-
ing passed to the XFCN, as in
FileName("TEXr'). XFCNs some-
times return a condition code
that tells the script whether an
operation worked. When using
an XFCN, use HyperTalk’s Put
command to capture the data
that the XFCN returns. Your
script can then proceed based
on the contents of that variable.

Installing an XCMD

To install an XCMD or
XFCN, use a resource
mover In this example,
ResCopy is about to
add the XFCN File^
Name to the Home
stack.

Just as with DeleteFile, you need to make
sure that your script checks the return
code to see if the renaming worked.

Bells and Whistles

The following XCMDs and XFCNs can
work wonders for your stack s user inter-
face, making it easier to use, more visually
interesting, more Mac-like, and more
polished.

■ DoLisl James Paul's DoList is an
XCMD that puts up a scrolling list of text
strings. Tlie user clicks on one of the
.strings to select it, and DoLi.st returns that
.selection to the .script, which then pro-

ces.ses it (see “DoList’’). You can use DoLi.st
to set up a directory for a sound collection,
so that if you click the name of one of the
.sounds — for example. Bells — the .script
will play the .sound. DoList can al.so be
u.sed for much more complicated opera-
tions. The example script here gives the
u.ser four choices. The user selects one
choice and then confirms the choice by
clicking on either the Pick Me or the No
Way! button. The script puts the selection
into the variable called Choice. In this script.
I've specified ONE to restrict the number
of po.ssible selections to only one of the
four. With different parameters, DoList
can let the user .select more than one item
from the list.

on MouseUp

DoList "Pick Me", "No Way!",
"Eenie.Meenie,Minee.Moe","ONE"
put the result into Choice
end MouseUp

mPopUpMenu Andrew Gilmartin’s
XFCN allows you to put a pop-up menu
comprising several different items any-
where on the screen. To .select an item, you
use the pop-up menu just like any other
menu. PopUpMenu then returns your se-
lection to the script. This XFCN does .some
of the same things that DoLi.st does, but it's

(continues)

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How To/Mac Tools

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Where to Find Stacks

The best source of public do-
main and shareware stacks, in-
cluding the XCMDs and XFCNs
discussed in this article, is your
local Macintosh user group
(see “A Guide to Macintosh
User Groups” in this issue).

Most groups sell disks of public
domain stacks at modest prices,
and you usually don’t need
to join to buy, although some
groups offer a discount to mem-
bers. To find a group near you,
call 800/538-9696 ext. 500.'

Other sources include online
services such as CompuServe
(800/848-8199, 614/457-0802 in
Ohio) or GEnie (800/638-9636,
301/340-4000 in Maryland), ma-
jor user groups that sell public
domain disks by mail-order, lo-
cal Macintosh bulletin boards,
and companies that sell public
domain stacks.

Keep an eye out for anthol-
ogy stacks that contain XCMDs
and XFCNs discussed in this ar-
ticle, as well as other resources.
A few collections worth look-
ing for: Steve Drazga’s Devel-
oper Tools 1.1, Randy Brown’s
X-Tools 1.1, Dewi Williams’s
XFCN and XCMD Miscellany.

User Groups

Apple Corps of Dallas, P.O. Box
835537, Richardson, TX 75083,
214/357-9185.

BMUG (Berkeley Macintosh
users group), 1442A Walnut St.,
#62, Berkeley, CA 94709,
415/549-2684.

Boston Computer Society/
Macintosh Group (BCS), 48
Grove St., Somerville, MA
02144 , 617/625-7080.

Commercial Distributors

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FileName

The FileName XFCN lets you select files from your
script the standard Macintosh way, without hav-
ing to type in the full path name.

a bit harder to use; you have to indicate
where on the screen you want the pop-up
menu to appear. Steve Drazga’s Developer
1.1 stack has some good examples of how
to use PopUpMenu.

■ Talk Dale Charletta’s XCMD, Talk,
enables your stacks to “talk” using Apple’s
Macintalk speech driver. You can use Talk
to greet users, respond to user input, or
make rude comments. The speech, how-
ever, sounds like a machine struggling with
a foreign language, especially compared
with more natural-sounding digitized
speech. The Macintalk System file must be
in your System Folder For Talk to work. To
use Talk, you specify the phrase to be spo-

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DoList

Using one line of code, the DoList XFCN can
make your stacks look and feel more profes-
sional — and perform better

ken, a number that controls how fast the
speech is spoken, and a number that con-
trols pitch (how high or low the voice
sounds). An example is: Talk “how do you
do?",“200".“300"

Change the numbers and try different
phonetic spellings for your phrase until the
Macintosh sounds just right.

mGetPVolume/SetPVoliime When
you add music, sound effects, or speech to
your stacks, you may want to control the
speaker volume. For example, you might
want to increase the volume for a particu-
lar sound effect, such as an explosion. You
can use Steven Kienle’s GetPVolume XFCN
to check the current volume level, which
ranges from 0 to 7 (no sound to maximum
volume). If the volume is not to your liking,
you can use his SetPVolume XCMD to reset
it. Look at the Control Panel to confirm that
the volume has been reset.

^BarButton Lloyd Maxfield s intrigu-
ing XCMD lets the user input numbers by
dragging the cursor inside a box or bar in-
stead of typing in the number. BarBution
returns the numeric value, defined by
where the user clicked (see “BarButton”).
You can specify which direction the user
can drag (left to right, top to bottom, and
so on), and you can set the range of nu-
meric values the bar can represent. You
can also define what the bar looks like.

This ability provides an interesting, more
visually significant alternative to typing
the numbers. BarButton is slightly more
difficult to use than some of the other
XCMDs described here because it offers
so many options.

^Makelcon With this XCMD you can
design custom icons for your stacks (see
“Makelcon”). Typing Makelcon calls up a Fat-

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File Edit Go Tools Objects

Th» second *nd Ihrd param»t»rs aflfr th#
B«rButton command ttll Ih* XCh® th# r» 09 *
of v^Hms you allow. Tho sacond paramotar is
tha maximum, and ih» third is tha minimum.

If the third parameter is absent, zero is
assumed. All values must be integers
If you include at least two parameters,
BarButton will normally display the current
numeric value as you change the size of the
bar. The value is always displayed to the
ri^t of left&riyht Bar buttons , and below the
3 on nvwsedown

if the optionkey is down then -•

put script of me into bkgnd field lowerpane

set cursor to 2

get the rect of me

BarButton 3,10,0

put the result into bkgnd field results
3 end mousedown

I To look Qt the script for any
button on this card,

I press the Option key as you
click on the button.

BarButton

BarButton lets the
user enter a number
by dragging the cursor
over the bars in the
dyart.

Bits-like graphics editor that lets you de-
sign icons. You can shift the design up or
down, left or right, and you can invert the
icon, changing black pixels to white and
vice versa for an interesting effect. Once
you have designed your iconic master-
piece, select the Install icon from the
menu. It brings up a Standard File dialog

box, you select the stack, and then Make-
Icon installs it for posterity.

Adding Functionality

The following XCMDs and XFCNs give
your scripts the ability to perform all kinds
of system functions that HyperTalk can’t
handle.

mSbutDown/DoRestart Will Cate’s
ShutDown and Jim Henderson’s DoRestart
are a pair of XCMDs that, as you might

expect, shut down or restart your Mac.

All you have to do is type ShutDown or
DoRestart in your script, and the XCMD
will do what’s expected. Typing either
command into 1 lyperCard’s message box
has the same effect. It’s only fair to ask
users (using HyperCard’s Ask command)
if they really want to shut down or restart.
This gives them a chance to change their
minds and cancel the command.

■ SysEtw Chris Knepper’s XFCN gives
you all kinds of system information. It can
tell you what type of Macintosh you are
using, whether it has a math coprocessor
or color QuickDraw, what kind of key-
board is attached, what version of the Sys-
tem software you are using, and many
other things. SysEnv can come in handy
when you are using the Home card as a
Finder replacement.

Handling Text

The following set of commands helps
your scripts handle text fields more
effectively.

■ Crunch When you have a text field
with many blank lines that you want to re-
move, Dan Wood’s Crunch XFCN provides

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Makelcon

Mcikelcon's icon editor makes it simple to design
and install icons while in HyperCard. ThisXCMD
is available by typing Makelcon in your script or in
the message box.

a quick and easy way of doing it. You can
do the same thing with a short HyperTalk
script, but the XFCN works much faster. To
use Cruncli, you specify the name of the
source field to be condensed and the name
of the held where you want the “crunched”
text to appear. The syntax: put crunch (field
"source") into field "recipient".

Sort Boojum Computer Systems’
Sort XFCN comes in handy when you want
to sort a long text held containing many
lines. You pass it the name of the held to be
sorted and the name of the held where the
sorted text is to go. You can specify an al-
phabetic or numeric sort. Blank lines sort
to the top, so you may want to get rid of
them hrst using Crunch.

DxipReturn In certain situations
you may not want users to type a return
character into a text held. Guy De Picciot-
to s TrapReturn XCMD traps a user's car-
riage return and lets you put up a message
telling users that they cannot enter a re-
turn. TrapReturn sends your card a Return-
Key message, which you then intercept
with a short script, as in this example.

On ReturnKey

Answer "You can't type a return here!" with OK
End ReturnKey

Every month more XCMDs and XFCNs
appear online. Let us knew if you hnd oth-
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out, so we can pass the word. □

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The Mirage I is the same system only
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Successful companies
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very business tools that help-
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So for anyone thinking of
buying a laser printer for the
Macintoshf there are at least
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A Guide to

Macintosh User Groups

Nearly every day at Maavorld we refer people to their local Macintosh user group for assistance in wmiarl-
mg a software problem, for help learning a complicated program or finding public domain software, or for
firsthand opinions of Mac products (see "Users Friendly, ” Maavorld, May 1988). The trick is fitiding a group.
If you call Apple's toll free number (800/ 538-9696, ext. 500), you'll get one or two referrals, but that may
not help you find the group that's right for you. Here's a listing of hundreds of user groups across the coun-
try. This guide is in three parts: general user groups (for people in a partiadar community), organized by
zip codes within states; special interest groups that have a specific focus; and national user groups, which
offer services to people who don't live near the group's headquarters. New groups start up all the time, so
we have undoubtedly missed some MUGs; write to us with details if your group's not on the list.

GENERAL USER GROUPS

Alabama

Birmingham Apple User Group, P.O. Box 55421, Birmingham, AL 55255, 205/870-1791. Macintosh/ Apple II.
Quad Cities Apple Byters, P.O. Box 2251, Florence, AL 35630, 205/767-2081. Macintosh/Apple II.

Sholas Macintosh Users, PO. Box 2251, Florence, AL 35630, 205/767-2081. Macintosh/Apple II.

Huntsville Mac User Group, 555 Sparkman Dn, #1612, Huntsville, AL 35816. Macintosh only.

Macinstcins, 2835 Zelda Rd., Montgomery, AL 36106, 205/271-1087. Macintosh only.

Peanuts and Apples, Rt. 2, Box 100, Ozark, AL 36360, 205/774-5611. Macintosh/Apple II.

SAPPLE, PO. Box 91336, Mobile, AL 36691. Macintosh/ Apple II.

The Apple Group, PO. Box 68, Auburn, AL 36831, 205/821-4300. Macintosh/Apple II.

Alaska

Alaskan Macintosh User Group, 200 W 34th, #202, Anchorage, AK 99508. Macintosh only.

Arctic Apple User’s Group, PO. Box 100360-PRB, Box 13, Anchorage, AK 99510, 907/659-5709. Macintosh/Apple II
Anchorage Apple User Group, Box 110753, Anchorage, AK 99511, 907/345-1001. Macintosh/ Apple II

Arizona

Arizona Apple User Group, 3035 E. Topaz Circle, Phoenix, AZ 85028, 602/277-8511. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Macexplorers, 10007 W Meadovvbrook, Phoenix, AZ 85039, 602/877-2171. Macintosh otily.

Arizona Macintosh Users Group, 16427 E. Campbell, Gilbert, AZ 85234, 602/926-2080. Macintosh only.

Gilbert Apple Seeds, 33 W Palo Verde St., Gilbert, AZ 85234. Macintosh/Apple II.

ThunderMUG, 15050 N. 59th Ave., #244, Glendale, AZ 85306. Macintosh only.

Sun Macs, c/o John Gump, 15605 98th Ave., Sun City, AZ 85351. Macintosh only.

Yuma Apple Users Group, 1712 Camino Pradera, Yuma, AZ 85364, 602/782-3554. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Sun City West Apple Users, 12930 Copperstone Dn, Sun City West, AZ 85375, 602/584-5306. Macintosh/Apple II.

Gila Valley Apple Growers Association, PO. Box 809, Thatcher, AZ 85552, 602/428-4073- University-Macintosh/ Apple II.
Mountain View Apple Users Group, 1508 Chantilly Dn, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635, 602/458-3042. Macintosh/Apple II.

Ricson Apple Core, PO. Box 43176, Tucson, AZ 85733. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Mountain MUG, PO. Box 15300, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, 602/774-4980. University-Macintosh only
Apple Cart, PO. Box 2361, Page, AZ 86040, 602/645-8811. Macintosh/Apple II.

Oak Creek Apples, 150 Color Cove Rd., Sedona, AZ 86336, 602/282-3222. Macintosh/Apple II.

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User Groups Directory

Arkansas

Apple Access, 104 E. Elm St., El Dorado, AR 71730, 501/862-1155. Maemtosh/ Apple II.

Little Rock Apple Company Users Group, 303 McMillen Trail, Little Rock, AR I'llffl , 501/663-5208. Macintosh/ Apple II.
Eureka Springs Apple Users, Rt. 4, Box 554, US. 62 E, Eureka Springs, AR 72632, 501/253-8418. Macintosh only.
Fayetteville Apple Users Group, RO. Box 204, Fayetteville, AR 72702, 501/442-7040. Macintosh/ Apple II.

California

Computech. 801 S. Gramercy Dr, #201, Los Angeles, CA 90005, 213/383-3819. Macintosh/ Apple II.

use Macintosh User Group, 1025 S. Sierra Bonita Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90019, 213/937-4082. University -Macintosh only.

UCLA Macintosh Users Group, UCLA Graduate School of Education, Los Angeles, CA 90024,

2 1 3/825-1944 . I /nit >ersity-Macintosh only.

Los Angeles Macintosh Group, 12021 Wilshire Blvd., #349, Los Angeles, CA 90025, 213/278 5264. Macintosh only.

A La Mac, RO. Box 27429, Los Angeles, CA 90027, 213/462-2860. Macintosh only.

Mac Surf, 1600 Campus Rd., #246, Los Angeles, CA 90041, 213/259-261 1. University-Macintosh only.

King Drew Macintosh User Group, Rm. 4016, Dermatology, King Drew Medical Center, 12021 S. Wilmington Ave., Los Angeles, CA
90059, 213/603-4578. University-Macintosh/Apple //.

South Bay .Apple Mac User Group, Box 432, Redondo Beach, CA 90277, 213/316-7738. Macintoslj only
Original Apple Corps. 15 Raloma Ave., #24, Venice, CA 90291, 213/396-5515. Macintosh/Apple II.

Maebug, 13800 Biola Ave., do Dr. R. Rigsby, Talbot School of Theology, La Mirada, CA 90639,

213/944-0351. University-Macintosh only.

AMUG, 10356 Beach Blvd., Stanton, CA 90680. Macintosh only.

West Orange County MUG, R.O. Box 5099, Los Alamitos, CA 90721. Macintosh only.

Tri-City Apple User Group, R.O. Box 975, South l^asadena, CA 91030, 213/258-4466. Macintosh/Apple //.

JPL Mac User Group. 4800 Oak Grove Dr., M/S 300-243, Rasadena, CA 91109, 818/354-0496. University-Macintosh only.

Cone jo -Ventura Macintosh User’s Group. R.O. Box 7118-MAC, Thousand Oaks, CA 91359, 805/584-8733- Macintosh only.

Mac Valley Users Group, R.O. Box 4297, Burbank, CA 91503, 818/848-1277. Macintosh only.

Lerc Aces, RO. Box 551, 3711 La Crescenta Ave., Burbank, CA 91520. Macintosh/Apple II.

CHOMP, R.O. Box 986, Claremont, CA 91711, 714/846-4774. Macintosh only.

Mac-Mania MUG, 963 Nottingham Dr., Corona, CA 91720, 714/735-6814. Macintosh only.

UC Riverside Mac User Group, 869 Crest Vista Dr., Monterey Rark, CA 91754, 714/684-7249. University -Macintosh only.

San Gabriel Valley Mac User Group, 927 N. Rose Glen Ave., Rosemead, CA 91770, 213/684-4266. Macintosh only.

San Diego Macintosh User Group, RO. Box 12561, La Jolla, CA 92037, 619/789-9492. Macintosh only.

North County Appleholics, R.O. Box 4442, Oceanside, CA 92054, 619/757-6352. Macintosh/Apple //.

Demons, 630 Cabrillo Ave., Coronado, CA 92118, 619/435-0554. Macintosh/Apple //.

Maedesert Connection. 255 N. El Cielo Rd., #629, Ralm Springs, CA 92262, 619/320-4003- Macintosh only.

Empire Mac User Group, 33418 Rosemond, Yucaipa, CA 92399, 714/864-4872. Macintosh only.

Applejacks of the Inland Empire. Box 23025, San Bernardino, C A 92406, 714/883-2234. Macintosh/ Apple ll.

U.C.R. MUG, 5505 Canyon Crest, #30, Riverside, CA 92507, 714/788-2167. University-Macintosh only.

Professional Loma Linda University User Group, RR Si Development Office, LLU/LSC,

Riverside, CA 92515. University -Macintosh only.

Orange Apple Computer Club, 25422 Trabuco Rd., Bldg. 105, #251, El Toro, CA 92630, 714/770-1865- Macintosh/ Apple ll.

Macbeach User Group, R.O. Box 2178, Huntington Beach, CA 92647, 714/842-0518. Macintosh only.

The Coffee MUG, 1104 England St., Huntington Beach, CA 92648, 714/969-2625- Macintosh only.

Mac Orange, R.O. Box 1830, Santa Ana, CA 92702, 714/871-6329. Macintosh only.

Golden West College Computer Club, 9050 La Linda Ave., Fountain Valley, CA 92708. University -Macintosh/ Apple II.

McDonnell Douglas Astro Apple, 16681 Mt. Darwin Circle, Fountain Valley, CA 92708, 714/839-1139. Macintosh/ Apple ll.

South Orange County Computer, 10221 Sketer Ave., #103-593, Fountain Valley, CA 92708. Macintosh/ Apple ll.

Pacific iMac Group. 417 Meadowbrook Rl., Anaheim, CA 92801, 714/776-4066. Macintosh/Apple II.

South Coast xMacintosh Users Group, Box 2035, Goleia, CA 93118, 805/685-7295- Macintosh only
Visalia Mac Enthusiasts Group, 207 E. Rrospect Ct., Visalia, CA 93291. Macintosh only.

Santa Maria & Lompoc Appleuser, 265 Shirley Ln., Santa xMaria, CA 93455. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Ridgecrest Apple User Group, 236 Rrimrose St., Ridgecrest, CA 93555, 619/375-9510. Macintosh! Apple ll.

Sierra Apple Orchard. R.O. Box 16275, Fresno, CA 93755, 209/439-2446. Macintosh/ Apple ll.

Club xMac of Monterey, Box 222988, Carmel, CA 93922, 408/624-8907. Macintosh only.

Informal Computer-Using Educators, R.O. Box 339, Los Altos, CA 94023, 415/969-4679. Macintosh/Apple ll.
xVIid-Day Mac Users, R.O. Box 626, Moss Beach, CA 94038, 415/728-5462. Macintosh otily

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350 September 1988

InfoWorld, March 14, 1988...

"Simply Accounting lists for $349,
which gets you all six accounting
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Of course, these competitors
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Macintosh. AppleShare and MultiFinder are trademarks of Apple Computer. Inc. • <S> indicates manufacturer's registered trademark • Simply Accounting is a trademark of Bedfo'd Software Corp

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User Groups Directory

San Francisco Community College MUG, 2554 29lh Ave., San Francisco, CA 94116. University-Macintosh only
Mad Macs (Beyond ThunderScan), 729 Fifth Ave., San Francisco, CA 94118. Macintosh only.

Whole Earth Well, 18 Sequoia Way, San Francisco, CA 94127, 415/469-8862. Macintosh only.

San Francisco Apple Care, F.O. Box 281797, San Francisco, CA 94128, 415/771-5830. Macintosh/Apple II.

UCSF Apple Users Group, c/o Bruce Pa\’ne, C\/RI Box 0130, San Francisco, CA 94143. University-Macintosh/ Apple ll.

SPACE, 3790 El Camino, #251, Palo Alto, CA 94306, 415/856-9294. Macintosh/Apple ll.

Stanford Macintosh Users Group, Box 2354, Stanford, CA 94309, 415/723-7684. University-Macintosh only.

San Leandro Apple Eaters, 838 Mayo Ct., Benicia, CA 94510. Macintosh/Apple II

Diablo Valley Apple User Group, P.O. Box 5031, Concord, CA 94524, 415/680-4271. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Mouse, 2198 Vista Luna, Fairfield, CA 94533, 707/426-2312. Macintosh only.

SPC Apple, HO. Box 8019, Fremont, C A 94537, 408/738-8330. Macintosh/Apple II.

Livermore Users Group, 685 I-as Positas Blvd., Livermore, CA 94550. Macintosh only.

Napa Apple User Group, P.O. Box 6801, Napa, CA 94581. Macintosh/ Apple ll.

North Bay Users Group, PO. Box 7156, Vallejo, CA 94590. Macintosh/Apple ll.

Mills College MUG, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613, 415/430-2167. University-Macintosh only.

East Bay Macintosh Users Group. 555 Pierce St., Albany, CA 94706, 415/758-2741. Macintosh only.

Berkeley Macintosh Developers Group, 930 34th St., Richmond, CA 94805, 415/849-4357. Macintosh only.

Macs of Marin, 23 Pleasant Ln., San Rafael, CA 94901, 415/459-5707. Macintosh only.

Silicon Apple Prog. Society, 18138 Bancroft, Monte Sereno, CA 95030. Macintosh/Apple ll.

Association of Apple 32 Users, P.O. Box 634, Santa Clara, CA 95052, 408/263-0398. Macintosh only.

Programmers and Interfacing Enthusiasts, PO. Box 2185, Santa Clara, CA 95055, 408/243-0234. Macintosh/Apple II.
MacDoves, 1424 Glen Canyon Rd., Santa Cruz, CA 95060. Macintosh only.

Macruzers, P.O. Box 2508, Santa Cruz, CA 95062, 408/458-9850. Macintosh only.

Apple Blossom Users Group, PO. Box 53323, San Jose, CA 95123. Macintosh/Apple II.

ChipMUG, 1015 Nevada PL, San Jose, CA 95125, 408/298-2469. Macintosh only

Stockton Apple User Group, 6333 Pacific Ave., #186, Stockton, CA 95207, 209/957-9389. Macintosh only.

Merced Mac, 333 W 20th St., Merced, CA 95340, 209/383-0727. Macintosh only.

North Coast Mac User Group, Box 14144, Santa Rosa, CA 95402, 707/545-5112. Macintosh only.

MCMUG, 532 S. State St., Ukiah, CA 95482. Macintosh only.

Sequoia Macintosh Users Group, Box 4715, Areata, CA 95521, 707/822-1874. Macintosh only.

Auburn Macintosh Users Group, 11428 F Ave., Auburn, CA 95603, 916/888-7433- Macintosh only.

Davis Macintosh Users Group. P.O. Box 2141, Davis, CA 95616, 916/758-4383. Macintosh only.

Davis Apple User Group, PO. Box 1534, Davis, CA 95617, 916/756-5063. Macintosh/Apple II.

Apple Sac, Inc.-Applc Computer Users Group of Sacramento, Box 254645, Sacramento, C A 95825. Macintosh/Apple II.
Sacramento’s University Macintosh Club, 4248 N. River Way, Sacramento, CA 95864, 916/481-3380. University-Macintosh only.
Trinity Users Group, Star Rt. 2, Box 4792, Trinity Center, CA 96091. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Colorado

MacinTech, 6635 S. Dayton St., #160, Englewood, CO 80111. Macintosh only.

Apple Three User Group, P.O. Box 3135, Englewood, CO 80155, 303/791-0887. Macintosh/ Apple ll.

Mile High Macintosh User’s Group. 855 S. Grant St., Denver, CO 80209, 303/869-9393. Macintosh only.
Denver Apple Pi Inc., PO. Box 17467, Denver, CO 80217, 303/422-1214. Macintosh/Apple ll.

Mac West Users Group. 981 S. Foothill Dr., Likewood, CO 80235, 303/989-6800. Macintosh only.

Computer CA.C.H.E., Box 37313, Denver, CO 80237, 303/771-2019. Macintosh only.

Boulder Mac Meeting, 6727 Uikeview Dr., Boulder, CO 80303, 303/494-7186. Macintosh only.

The Apple Resource Group, PO. Box 451, Eastlake, CO 80614, 303/451-6116. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Greeley Outpost Club Mac, 1955 23rd Ave., Greeley, CO 80631, 303/352-4085. Macintosh only.

Silicon Mountain Macintosh Users Group, c/o Greg Kelly, 3440 Oro Blanco Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80917,
719/597-2695. Macintosh only.

M-BUG, 115 Elm St., Trinidad, CO 81082, 719/846-4367. Macintosh only.

Macintosh Users Group in Telluride, Box 112, Telluride, CO 81435, 303/728-3469. Macintosh only
Macintosh Users Group, Box 1146, Basalt, CO 81621, 303/925-7262. Macintosh only.

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352 September 1988

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User Groups Directory

Connecticut

The Connecticut Macintosh Connection, 5 Fox Chase Rd., Bloomfield, CT 06002, 203/242-2684. MacitUosh otily.
Informatics Group, 80 Shield St., We.st Hartford, CT 06110, 203/724-4040. Unii ersity-AIacmtosh/Apple If.

H.U.G.E., Box 18027, East Hartford, CT 061 18, 203/568-0492. Macintosh/ Apple II.

U Conn Mac User’s Group, c/o Tom Terry, U-44, UniversilN’ of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06268. University-Macintosh only.
Southeastern CT Apple User Group, RO. Box 510, Gales Ferry, CT 06335, 203/464-9372. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Southern Connecticut Mac User Group, 269 Thames St., Groton, CT 06340. Macintosh otily.

Appleheld Users Group. 565 Long Hill Rd., Groton, CT 06340, 203/265-1000. Macintosh only.

Yale Mac Users’ Group, Box 20A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520, 203/865-6163. University-Macintosh only
The Apple Corps. 10 Lords Hwy., Weston, CT 06883, 203/227-0921. Macintosh only.

Greater Danbury Macintosh User Group, P.O. Box 295, West Redding, CT 06896, 203/746-0668. Macintosh only.

The Group, 98 Hoyt St., #4d, Stamford, CT 06905, 203/325-4250. Macintosh only.

Delaware

Macintosh Users of Delaware, Box 17, Rockland, DE 19732. Macintosh only.

Del Ches Systems, 2204 N. Church St., Wilmington, DE 19802, 302/658-0735. Macintosh/Apple II
Macintosh Gamers of America, 116 W^eldin Park Dr., Wilmington, DE 19803- Macintosh only.

Delmarva Apple Users Group, RD 2, Box 94-A, Bridgeville, DE 19933, 302/945-9520. Macintosh/Apple II.

Florida

North Florida MUG, PO. Box 10262, Jack.sonvi lie, FL 32247, 904/731-0851. Macintosh only.

Tallahassee Apple User Group, PO. Box 11112, Tallahassee, FL 32302, 904/599-3316. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Mac Bay Users Group, 1712-A Deer Ave., Panama City, FL 32401. Macintosh only.

Pensacola Macintosh User Group, PO. Box 18550, Pensacola, FL 32503. Alacintosh only.

Macintosh Computer Club of Pensacola, Box 15390, Pensacola, FL 32514, 904/478-1112. Macintosh only.

Macplayground MUG, Box 3195, Fort W'alton Beach, FL 32548, 904/862-4908. Macintosh only.

Suffolk Apple Computer Society, 506 Greenwood Cove S, Niceville, FL 32578, 904/678-8007. Macintosh/Apple II.

De Mac, 400 Nut Tree, Deland, FL 32724, 904/736-1953. Macintosh only
MacMAD, RO. Box 194, Melbourne, FL 32902, 407/729-6004. Macintosh only.

Space Coast Apple Users Group, PO. Box 2112, Merritt Island, FL 32952, 407/452-8357. Macintosh/Apple II.

Florida Keys Macintosh Users Group, Florida Keys Community College, Key W^e.st, FL 33040, 305/296-9081. Macintosh only.
National Macintosh Computer Society, Box 8589, Coral Springs, FL 33075, 305/941-8286. Macintosh only.

Miami Beach Apple Club, 5701 Collins Ave., #1709, Miami Beach, FL 33140, 305/866-5507. Macintosh/ Apple II
Miami’s Big Apple User Group, Box 63-04, Miami, FL 33163, 305/948-8000. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Gold Coast Mac, Inc., Box 452305, Miami, FL 33245, 305/447-7888. Macintosh only.

The Source Apple Expert, 2786 Tennis Club Dr., #305, Wfest Palm Beach, FL 33417, 407/689-3330. Macintosh/ Apple II.
Florida Innovation Group, P.O. Box 16645 , 11606 Malcolm McKinley, Tampa, FL 33687, 813/971-1025. Macintosh only.
Holiday Area Macers Ham, 8700 N. 50th St., #428, Tampa, FL 33687, 800/548-8282. Macintosh only.

Sw’acks, 18141 Palm Creek Dr., North Fort Myers, FL 33917, 813/543-6329. Macintosh/Apple II.

Naples Mac Friends, 1800 Tiller Terr., Naples, FL 33940, 813/261-8208. Macintosh only.

Spring Hill Apple Computer Enthusiasts, 5228 Derby Ave., Spring Hill, FL 34608, 904/686-6479. Macintosh/Apple II.

Bay Area Macintosh Users Group, 11335 112th St. N, Largo, FL 34648, 813/398-6702. Macintosh only.

So. Florida Macintosh Users Group, 2109 Enxan Rd., Port St. Lucie, FL 34952, 407/337-0758. Macintosh only.

Georgia

Mac Atlanta, 3127 Bunker Hill Circle, Marietta, GA 30062, 404/971-9661. Macintosh only.

Widget Apple Group. 4285 Loch Highland Pass, Roswell, GA 30075, 404/992-2553. Macintosh/Apple II.

Atlanta Macintosh Users Group, P.O. Box 2941, Norcross, GA 30091, 404/231-9527. Macintosh only.

LAMUG, 824 Azalea Dr., Lagrange, GA 30240. Macintosh/Apple II.

Emory Mac User Group, Dept, of Geology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, 404/727-0118. University-Macintosh only.
Atlanta Area Apple Users Group, 868 Castle Falls Dr. NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, 404/662-6957. Macintosh/Apple II.

Athens Mac Users, Barrow Hall, Rm. 112, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, 404/542-5359. University-Macintosh only.
Classic Apple Users Group, 2211 Belmont Rd., Arnoldsville, GA 30619, 404/353-4615. Macintosh/Apple II.

Augusta Mac Masters, 2933 Foxhall Circle, Augusta, GA 30907, 404/860-6818. Macintosh only.

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354 September 1988

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Mercer University Mac Users, Media Center, Mercer University, Mercer, GA 31207 , 912/744-2985. University-Macintosh only.
Savannah MUG, 13 Cutler Ct., Savannah, GA 31419, 912/925-2188. Macintosh only.

South Georgia Apple Core, 1618E Bird Ct., V^aldosta, GA 31602, 912/244-9363. Macintosh/ Apple //.

Kauai Apple Users Group, PO. Box 1540, Kapaa, HI 96746, 808/822-4558. Macintosh/Apple //.
Hawaii Macintosh User Group, RO. Box 1355, Pearl City, HI 96782, 808/456-1610. Macintosh only.
Maui Macintosh Users Group, RR 1, Box 98, Wailuku, HI 96793, 808/572-0630. Macintosh only.

Idaho

Idaho Falls Mac Users Group, 294 Davidson Dr., Idaho Falls, ID 83401, 208/523-0004. Macintosh/ Apple II.
Canyon Macintosh Users Group, 1110 W Ash, Caldwell, ID 83605, 208/454-8862. Macintosh only.
Macintosh User’s Group of Southern Idaho, 5182 Latigo, Boise, ID 83709, 208/345-0346. Macintosh only.
Boise State Academic Apple Users, Chemistry Department, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725,
208/385-3964. University-Macintosh/Apple II.

IPHAUG, 11765 Diamond Dr., Hayden Lake, ID 83835, 208/772-4552. Macintosh only.

Illinois

Apple Developers Consortium, 703 W Victoria Ln., Arlington Heights, IL 60005, 312/640-8082. Macintosh only.

Macadamia Mac Users Group, RO. Box 239, Cary, IL 60013, 312/639-4960. Macintosh only.

Northwestern Mouse User Group, NU ACNS , 2129 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL 60208, 312/491-3290. University-Macintosh only.
Apple Enthusiast Society of Oak Park, 820 Bonnie Brae, River Forest, IL 60305, 312/366-7864. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Illinois Macintosh Users Group, 2314 Mason, Joliet, IL 60435. 815/744-2073. Macintosh only.

DuPage Apple User Group, RO. Box 294, Downers Grove, IL 60515, 312/993-3897. Macintosh/Apple II.

Indian Hill Computer Hobbyists, AT&T Bell Labs, Rm. 6K31, Naperville & Wheaton Rds., Naperville, IL 60566,

312/979-2028. Macintosh/Apple II.

University of Chicago MUG, 5528 S. Hyde Park Blvd., #1106, Chicago, IL 60637, 312/288-5199. University-Macintosh only.

The Rest of Us, Box 3500, Chicago, IL 60654, 312/525-4761. Macintosh only.

Stateline Macintosh Users Group, 3703 N. Main, Rockford, IL 61103, 815/633-9494. Macintosh only.

Central Illinois Mac User Group, 1501 W Bradley Ave., Peoria, IL 61625, Macintosh only.

The Mac Pac, PO. Box 1512, Bloomington, IL 61702, 309/828-3145. Macintosh only.

Champaign-Urbana Macintosh Users Group, do Gail Kampmeier, 172 Natural Resources Bldg., 607 E. Peabody, Champaign,
IL 61820. i 'nil vrsity-Mcicintosh only.

Champaign-Urbana Apple User Group, 1908 Barberry Circle, Champaign, IL 61821. Macintosh/Apple II.

Metro MUG, 13 Yorkshire Ln., #6, Belleville, IL 62221, 618/234-4333. Macintosh only.

Macintosh Computer User Group of Sangamin, Box 2344, Springfield, IL 62705, 217/782-9845. Macintosh only.

Crab Apple Users Group, RO. Box 338, Carbondale, IL 62901, 618/893-4489. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Macintosh User Group of Southern Illinois, Computer Corner, University Mall, Carbondale, IL 62901,

618/529-5000. Macintosh only.

Southern Illinois Apple User Group, Rl^ 2, Box 42, Cobden, IL 62920. Macintosh only.

Little Egypt Apple Users Group, RO. Box 1122, Murphysboro, IL 62966, 618/684-2752. Macintosh/Apple II.

Indiana

Macgenius, 1102 Sherri Ln., Lebanon, IN 46052, 317/482-5657. Macintosh only.

The Apple Pickers Inc., RO. Box 20136, Indianapolis, IN 46220, 317.^291-4042. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Apple UG Michiana, 423 W Bike, Bremen, IN 46506, 219/546-4050. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Mad Macs, Notre Dame University, Computing Center, Notre Dame, IN 46556, 219/239-5600. University-Macintosh only.
Fort Wayne MUG, PO. Box 5673, Fort Wayne, IN 46895, 219/749-4444. Macintosh only.

Kokomo Apple Users Group, 611 S. Webster St., Kokomo, IN 46901, 317/452-2616. Macintosh/Apple II.

Muncie MacPack, PO. Box 2407, Muncie, IN ^\1/1A1-6\1^. Macintosh only.

SMUG, RO. Box 1238, 2506 Milton Drive, Bloomington, IN 47402, 812/336-7395. Macintosh only

The Macintosh Group of Southern Indiana, 748 Stewart Ave., Evansville, IN 47715, 812/423-6869. Macintosh only.

Apple Byters of Vigo Co., 2747 College Ave., Terre Haute, IN 47803. Macintosh/Apple II.

Wabash Valley Macintosh Users Group, RO. Box 95, Terre Haute, IN 47808, 812/232-0050. Macintosh only.

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User Groups Directory

Iowa

Ames Apple Users Group, RO. Box 703, Ames, lA 50010, 515/232-1652. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Iowa State Mac Users Group, 301 S. 5lh St., #355, Ames, LA 50010, 515/233-4807. University-Macintosh only.

Club Mac Midwest, RO. Box 468, Johnston, lA 50131, 515/270-6916. Macintosh only.

Apple Seed, Box 1281, Marshalltown, lA 50158, 515/752-0883. Macintosh/Apple II.

Newton Apple Corps, RO. Box 1263, Newton, lA 50208, 515/792-8695. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Marion County Computer Club, 503 Broadway, Pella, lA 50219, 515/842-3101. Macintosh/Apple II.

Roland-Story Apple Users Group, RO. Box D, Roland, LA 50236, 515/388-5576. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Glitch Kickers Computer Club, Box H, Waukee, I A 50263, 515/288-0255. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Central Iowa Mac Publishers, 3106 Ingersoll Ave., Des Moines, I A 50312, 515/274-9271. Macintosh only.

Iowa MUG, 667 49th St., Des Moines, lA 50312, 515/279-9650. Macintosh only.

Waterloo/Cedar Falls Cl A-MUG, RO. Box 143, Cedar Falls, lA 50613, 319/266-0634. Macintosh only.

Green Apples User group, RO. Box 2224, Waterloo, lA 50704, 319/268-0066. Macintosh/ Apple II.

The Tree House, 219 W Montgomery, Creston, lA 50801, 515/782-4315. Macintosh/Apple II.

MUGSi, 3303 Rebecca St., Box 2100, Sioux City, I A 51104, 712/279-5549. Macintosh only.

Western I A Apple Users, RR 4, Box 96, Harlan, I A 51537, 712/744-3619. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Tri State Micro Computer Club, 15700 Five Points Rd., Durango, lA 52039, 319/556-1874. Macintosh/Apple II.

Iowa City Apple Group, RO. Box 1267, Iowa City, lA 52244, 319/354-7137. Macintosh/Apple II.

Cedar Rapids Macintosh User, Rt. 2, Box 188-A, Solon, lA 52333, 319/848-4484. Macintosh only.

Central Iowa Area Macintosh User Group, 9914 l6th Ave. SW, Cedar Rapids, I A 52404, 319/363-1242. Macintosh only.
Macknowlia, RO. Box 1691, Fairfield, lA 52556, 515/472-7523. University-Macintosh only.

Apple Burlington Users Group, RO. Box 508, West Burlington, lA 52655, 319/753-0846. Macintosh/Apple II.

Kansas

Apple Bits Users Group Inc., RO. Box 368, Shawnee Mission, KS 66201, 816/523-1007. Macintosh/Apple II.

Kansas City Mac Core, Box 2177, Shawnee Mission, KS 66201, 816/472-7226. Macintosh only.

Kaw River Mac Users Group, RO. Box 454, Manhattan, KS 66502, 913/537-8867. Macintosh only.

Topeka Macintosh Users Group, 1328 S.W 30th, Topeka, KS 66611, 913/233-9815. Macintosh only.

MacWichita, RO. Box 48604, Wichita, KS 67201, 316/777-0492. Macintosh only

Dodge City Apple Users Group, 606 Second Ave., Dodge City, KS 67801, 316/227-3107. University-Macintosh/Apple II.

Kentucky

Louisville Apple User Group, 4523 S. First St., Louisville, KY 40214, 502/363-3113. Macintosh/Apple II.

Central Kentucky Computer Society, 271 W Short St., #100, Lexington, K Y 40507, 606/255-3349. Macintosh/ Apple II.
Capital City Macintosh Users Group, 516 Wapping St., Frankfort, KY 40601, 502/875-7232. Macintosh only.

Kentucky Educators Computer Users Group, 504 Crow Hollow Rd., Clarkson, KY 42726, 502/242-9414. Macintosh/Apple II.

Louisiana

New Orleans Macintosh Users Group, Box 5991, Metairie, LA 70009, 504/885-5600. Macintosh only.

Baton Rouge MAUG, College of Design, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, 504/388-6506. Macintosh/ Apple II.
Shreveport Area Macintosh User, RO. Box 5150, Shreveport, LA 71135, 318/861-9372. Macintosh only.

Maine

Maine Macintosh Owners and Operators, RO. Box 1025, Brunswick, ME 04011, 207/725-8417. Macintosh only.
Southern Maine Apple Users Group, RR 1, Box 206, Freeport, ME 04032, 207/865-3970. Macintosh/ Apple II.
Kennebec Apple Users Group, RO. Box 1166, Waterville, ME 04901, 207/873-2880. Macintosh/Apple II.

Maryland

Southern Maryland Apple Users, RO. Box 398, Lexington Park, MD 20653, 301/862-2364. Macintosh/Apple II.
University of Maryland MUG, 326 Thomas Dr., #1, Laurel, MD 20707. University-Macintosh only.

Washington Apple Pi, Ltd., 8227 Wbodmont Ave, #201, Bethesda, MD 20814, 301/654-8060. Macin toshf Apple II.

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User Groups Directory

Capital PC User Group, Inc., 51 Monroe St., Plaza East II, Rockville, MD 20850, 301/656-8372. Macintosh only.

Biomedical Research Mac Users Group, Bldg. 36, Rm. 2A03, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301/496-4957

Harford Community College Apple Users, 401 Thomas Run Rd., Bel Air, MD 21014, 301/836-4315. University-Macintosh/ Apple II.
Reisterstown Apple Users Group, 6 Kingsley Rd., Owings Mills, MD 21117. Macintosh/Apple II.

WMCmug, Western Maryland College, Westminster, MD 21157, 301/857-2477. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Maryland Apple Corps, P.O. Box 2353, Baltimore, MD 21203- Macintosh/ Apple II.

Massachusetts

Apple Core Berkshire County, 14 Hutch in.son Ln., Lenox, MA 01240, 413/637-1593- Macintosh/Apple II.

Worchester Mac Users Group, 47 West St., E. Douglas, MA 01516, 617/476-7014. Macintosh only.

Any Body’s Information Center, 384 N. Main St., Andover, MA 01810, 617/475-7411. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Computer Users Group, 7 Muriel Rd., Chelmsford, MA 01824, 617/256-6173- Macintosh/Apple II.

North Shore Apple Group, Box 59, Rockport, M A 01966, 617/546-3104. Macintosh/Apple II.

East Coast Apple Net, 19 Damon Rd., Scituate, MA 02066, 617/545-2696. Macintosh only.

Harvard Computer Society, Science Center 121, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, M A 02138, 617/498-7937. Vniversity-Macintosh/Apple II.
Boston College Macintosh User Group, Gasson 12, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167,

617/552-8640. University-Macintosh only.

Wellesley MUG, Slater International Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02181, 617/235-0320. University-Macintosh only.
Martha’s Vineyard Macintosh User Group, P.O. Box 1602, Edgartown, MA 02539, 508/627-8529- Macintosh only.

Cape Cod Apple Users Group, Box 48, South Dennis, M A 02660, 617/896-7286. Macintosh/Apple II.

Michigan

S.M.U.G., 4289 Old Forge Dr., Port Huron, Ml 48060, 800/521-7660, ext. 275- Macintosh only.

Apple PIE, PO. Box 5055, Warren, Ml 48090, 313/778-3299- Macintosh/Apple II.

Ann Arbor Apple, PO. Box 2386, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106, 313/485-0884. Macintosh/Apple II.

Mac Technics User Group, Box 4063, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106, 313/662-1199- Macintosh only.

Semco Mac Pac, PO. Box 02426, Detroit, MI 48202, 313/673-1573- Macintosh only.

Mac Group, Box 35529, Detroit, MI 48235- Macintosh only.

SE Michigan MUG, 506 Spring Ln., Flushing, Ml 48433, 215/368-1678. Macintosh only.

The Flint Apple Club, PO. Box 460, Flint, MI 48501, 313-732-9574. Macintosh/Apple II.

Saginaw Apple Computer Klub, 4465 Seidel PL, Saginaw, MI 48603, 517/792-3975- Macintosh/Apple II.

ChUG, 319 S. Chapman, Chesaning, Ml 48616, 517/845-2040. Macintosh only.

Mac-In-Awe Mug, 1710 W. St. Andrews Rd., Midland, Ml 48640, 517/636-0009. Macintosh only.

North East Michigan Mac Users Group, 1175 South US. 23, Tawas City, MI 48763, 517/362-6149. Macintosh only.

Lansing Area Macintosh & Lisa Users, P.O. Box 27572, Lansing, Ml 48909, 517/393-6413- Macintosh only.

Kalamazoo Apple Computer User, 376 Lodge Ln., Kalamazoo, MI 49009. Macintosh/Apple II.

Mar Creek Apple Computer Club, 111 Academy, Battle Creek, MI 49017, 616/963-2885. Macintosh/ Apple II.

St. Joseph County Apple Computer UG, 55066 N. Fisher Lake Rd., Three Rivers, MI 49093, 616/279-9416. Macintosh/ Apple II.
Lenawee Apple Core Users Group, 1100 South Main, Lot 61, Adrian, MI 49221, 517/263-2070. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Albion College Macintosh Enthusiasts, Albion College, Albion, MI 49224, 517/629-5511 - University-Macintosh/Apple II.
Apple Jackson Users Group, 4848 Wolf Lake Rd., Grass Lake, Ml 49240, 517/522-4689- Macintosh/Apple II.

Grand Rapids Apple Macintosh Users, 2310 Tecumseh Dr., Grand Rapids, MI 49506, 616/241-3795- Macintosh only.
Northwest Mac Users Group, 131 N. Elmwood, Traverse City, Ml 49684, 616/941-6576. Macintosh only.

Sault Sainte Marie Macintosh User Group, PO. Box 154, Sault Sainte Marie, MI 49783, 705/942-8810. Macintosh only.

Copper MUG, 600 Hecla St., Box 209, Hancock, MI 49930, 906/482-3907. Macintosh/Apple II.

Minnesota

St. Olaf MUG, do Blake Sobiloff, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057, 507/663-3613. University-Macintosh only.
Mini’app’les, Box 796, Hopkins, MN 55343, 612/572-9305. Macintosh/Apple //.

Univ. of Minn. MUG, 2751 Brighton Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55418, 612/789-0931. University-Macintosh only
Iron Range Apple Computer Club, 2024 Eighth Ave. E, Hibbing, MN 55746, 218/263-5462. Macintosh/Apple II.

SMMUG, 2230 Lester River Rd., Duluth, MN 55804, 218/726-2642. Macintosh only

Rochester Area Mac Users, Mayo Clinic E-12, 200 First St. SW, Rochester, MN 55905, 507/282-5182. University-Macintosh only.
Agassiz Macers, 3619 Rivershore Dr., Moorhead, MN 56560, 218/236-1266. Macintosh only.

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360 September 1988

Now you can get color
with your laser printer.

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You bought a laser printer to make your work look good.
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Color Plus takes laser printer output and in seconds
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charts, name badges, letterhead and other laser-printed
work can have the power of color printing.

With Kroy Color Plus you gain the advantage of color printing technology without having
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software to master. It’s hardw^ independent; all it requires is your laser-printed output.

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User Groups Directory

Mississippi

Ole Miss Apple User Group, Rt. 6, Box 316A, Oxford, MS 38655, 601/234-3146. University -Macintosh only
Natchez Apple Users’ Group, 419 Walnut St., Natchez, .MS 39120, 601/442-1181. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Hattieburg Apple Users Group, 2803 Jefferson Dr, Hattieburg, MS 39401. Macintosh/Apple II.

Apple Users of So. Mississippi, 10 Wingate Dr, Gulfport, MS 39503, 601/831-1473. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Mississippi State Microcomputer Users, University Computer Center Drawer Cc, Mississippi State, MS 39762, 601/325-2079.
University-Macintosh/ Apple II.

Missouri

Personal Computer Club of St. Louis, 274 Brightfield Dr, Manchester, MO 63021, 314/394-6099. Macintosh only.
Gateway Area Macintosh User Group, 907 Lisa Ln., Kirkwood, MO 63122. 314/966-0535. Macintosh only.
Applejacks of St. Louis, 12 Jenny Lind Dr, Saint Peters, MO 63376, 314/441-1613. Macintosh/Apple II.

Central Missouri Computer Club, c/o Citizen Computer Store, 1905 Walnut Si., Higginsville, MO 64037,
816/584-7727. Macintosh/Apple II.

Joplin Apple Users Group, 1903 E. 36th, Joplin, MO 64801, 417/624-3900. Macintosh/Apple II.

ApplcJAC Macintosh Users Group, 2539 Lexington Dr, Jefferson City, MO 65109, 314/634-3102. Macintosh 07 ily
Columbia MUG, P.O. Box 81 1 , # 1 , Columbia, MO 65205, 314/874-8657. University-Macintosh only.

Sedalia Apple Users Group, 2316 W Fifth St., Sedalia, MO 65301, 816/827-2623. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Apple Squires of the Ozarks, PO. Box 3986, Springfield, MO 65808, 417/882-0323- Macintos!)/ Apple II.

Montana

Billings Apple Users Group, 231 Alderson Ave., Billings, MT 59106, 406/252-7581. Macintosh/Apple II.
Montana Mac, 3211 Fifth Ave. S, Great Falls, MT 59405, 406/761-8954. Macintosh only.

NONS, Box 521, Choteau, MT 59422, 406/466-2857. Macmtosh/ Apple II.

Montana Macademics, Department of English, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717,
406/994-5189. University-Macintosh only.

Nebraska

Omaha Macintosh Users Group, 311 S. 151st Circle, Omaha, NE 68154. Macintosh only.

Metro Apple Computer Hobbyists, 3506 N. 113th Plaza, #1, Omaha, NE 68164, 402/493-3259. Macintosh/Apple II.
Lincoln Informed Macintosh Enthusiasts, 5521 Locust St., Lincoln, NE 68516, 402/489-0556. Macintosh only.
Platte Valley User’s Group, 601 Park St., Scoitsbluff, NE 69361, 308/635-0730. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Nevada

Southern Nevada Apple Family User, Box 8551, 5000 E. Bonanza, Las Vegas, NV 89110. Macintosh/Apple II.
Greater Reno Operating Group, Box 1038, Sparks, NV 89432, 702/355-7676. Macintosh/ Apple II.

New Hampshire

Southern NH Apple Core, Drawer 3647, Nashua, NH 03061, 603/883-1655. Macintosh/Apple II.

Pemi-Baker Computer Users Group, RFD 2, Box 399, Plymouth, NH 03264, 603/536-3880. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Mac Monadnock MUG, 601 West St., Keene, NH 03431, 603/357-4531. Macintosh only.

Big Green Apple Users Group, Stevens Rd., Box 180, Etna, NH 03750, 603/643-2530. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Seacoast Mac, 57 South St., Portsmouth, NH 03801, 603/436-1608. Macintosh only.

The Apple Manchester User Group, 663 Varney St., Manchester, NH 03833, 617/778-7229. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Merrimac Macintosh User Group, 20 Johnson Meadow Rd, #4A, Hampstead, NH 03841, 603/329-6107. Macintosh only.
Lakes Region Mac Users Group, PO. Box 92, New Durham, NH 03855, 603/859-3342. Macintosh only.

New Jersey

Summit Mac User Group, 42 Oakview Ave., Maplewood, NJ 07040, 201/763-3360. Macintosh only.

New Jersey Macintosh Users Group, PO. Box 43205, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043. Machitosh only.

Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey, 456 Henry St., Scotch Plains, NJ 07076, 201/889-7158. Macintosh/Apple II

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362 September 1988

Mike Uriss
created this
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ImageStudio
paint tools.

software lurnea

Wmaryp/,0,,

T his unique software combines the func-
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software offers improved memory manage-
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^ Use it as a paint program...

ImageStudio software goes far beyond the
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ImageStudio software is ideal for editing and
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printed materials, ask your Letraset Graphic
Design Software Dealer for a demonstration or
call 1 800 722-0377.

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Letraset is a registered trademark of Esselte
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User Groups Directory

Short Hills Apple Pits, 29 Clive Hills Rd., Short Hills, NJ 07078. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Essex County Macintosh Users, RO. Box 122, South Orange, NJ 07079, 201/763*0693, 201/750-1988. Macintosh only.

Central Jersey Macintosh User Group, 217 Mawbey St., Woodbridge, NJ 07095, 201/750-1988. Macintosh only.

Bergen County Macintosh Users Group, 147 N. Terrace Pi., New Milford, NJ 07646, 201/262-6729. Macintosh only.

Columbia University Mac Users Group, 572 Kenwood Pi., Teaneck, NJ 07666, 201/836-2529. University -Macintosh only.

Golden Apple Users Group, 2 Bayberry Ln., Randolph, NJ 07869, 201/263-8330. Macintosh/ Apple II.

NW Jersey Apple Users Group, 23 Rt. 206, Stanhope, NJ 07874. 201/347-7892. Macintosh/Apple II.

Applejack, Box 634, Madison, NJ 07940, 201/822-3131. Macintosh/Apple II.

South Jersey Apple Users Group, RO. Box 4273, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003, 609/482-0457. Macintosh/Apple II.

South Jersey Mac Users, 221 Timothy Ct., Cherry Hill, NJ 08034, 609/428-4429. Macintosh only.

Ocean Apple Users Group, 1049 Driftwood Ave., Manahawkin, NJ 08050, 609/597-3797. Macmtosh/ Apple II.

Atlantic City Area Mac Users Group, 201 Tilton Rd., Northheld, NJ 08225, 609/646-8151. Macintosh/Apple II.

Princeton Macintosh Users’ Group, 6 New South, Info Services, Princeton, NJ 08544, 609/452-3622. University-Macintosh only.
Monmouth Apple Corps User Group, 332 River Ave., Point Pleasant Beach, NJ 08742, 201/528-6349. Macintosh/ Apple II.
Macintosh Assoc, of Central New Jersey, RD 1, Box 250, Milford, NJ 08848, 201/852-2205. Macintosh only.

Ewing Apple Users Group, 703 E. Brookside Ln., Somerville, NJ 08876, 201/874-8766. Macintosh/Apple II.

Apple Synapse II, 1050 George St. 5-0, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Macintosh/Apple II.

Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey, 698 Magnolia Rd., North Brunswick, NJ 08902, 201/563-5389. Macintosh only.

New Mexico

Applequerque Computer Club, Box 35508, Albuquerque, NM 87176, 505/888-4410. Macintosh/Apple II.

Red Apple Flyer Computer Club, 4108 Douglas, Farmington, NM 87401. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Cruces Apple Users Group, Box 428, White Sands Missile Range, NM 88002, 505/522-0861. Macintosh/ Apple II.
Apples-on-the-Pecos, 27 Lost Trail Rd., Roswell, NM 88201. Macintosh/Apple II.

New York

New York Mac Users Group, 688 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10010, 212/691-0496. Macintosh only.

Westchester MUG, 41 Park Ave., #2G, New York, NY 10016. Macintosh only.

Mt. Sinai Apple Users Group, Box 1115, 1 Gustave Levy Plaza, New York, NY 10029, 212/241-6151. University-Macintosh/Apple II.

City MUG, City of New York Associated Student Union Center, 33 W 42nd St., Box 220, New York, NY 10036,

2 1 2/790-4360. University-Macintosh only.

Big Apple Users Group, Box 490, New York, NY 10274, 718/442-4256. Macintosh/Apple II.

Staten Island Apple User Group, Box 050 141, Staten Island, NY 10305, 718/727-1291. Macintosh! Apple II.

Bronx Community College Mac Users, University Heights, 181st & University Aves., Bronx, NY 10453,

212/220-6235. University-Macintosh only.

Westchester Apple Group, 55-A Locust Ave., #4G, New Rochelle, NY 10801, 914/636-3417. Macintosh/Apple II.

Rock Mug, RD 2, Box M781, Monroe, NY 10950, 914/638-3800. Macintosh only.

Crab Apple, 14 Eleanor PL, Monsey, NY 10952, 212/822-5035. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Apple Power Users Group, Box 490, Franklin Square, NY 11010, 516/775-8841. Macintosh/Apple II.

Nassau Community College Macintosh User Group, MatlVComputer Department, Nassau Community College, Garden City,

NY 11530, 516/222-7384. University-Machitosh/Apple II.

Fran-Apple User Group, RO. Box 172, East Meadow, NY 11554. Macintosh/Apple II.

Suffolk Macintosh Users’ Group, RO. Box 233, Centereach, NY 11720, 516/231-1919. Macintosh only.

Lica-Li macintosh Users Group, Box 518, Seaford, NY 11783, 516/541-3186. Macintosh otily.

Campus Apple Group, 2214 12th St., Troy, NY 12180, 518/271-0750. University-Macintosh/Apple II.

Northeastern Users of the Mac, Inc., RO. Box 2548 ESP, Albany, NY 12220. Macintosh only.

Society of Hudson Valley Mac Users, Box 1999, Kingston, NY 12401. Macintosh only.

Valley Central MUG, c/o Marietta Allen. 29 Colden Hill Rd., Newburgli, NY 12550, 914/457-3124. Macintosh only.

Skidmore Mac Enthusiasts, Computer Services, Skidmore College. Saratoga Springs, NY 12866,

518/584-5000. University-Macintosh only.

Upstate Cider Mill, RR 3, Box 25B, Caughdenoy Rd., Central Square, NY 13036, 315/676-2446. Macintosh only.

Syracuse Microcomputer Club, RR 1, Box 175, Fabius, NY 13063, 315/683-9460. University-Macintosh/Apple II.

The Apple Corps, 55 Stevenson St., #5, Seneca Falls, NY 13148, 315/568-9718. Macintosh/Apple II.

SUNY-ESF Mac Users Group, Room 8 LLRC, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse Campus, Syracuse, NY 13210,
315/470-6810. University-Macintosh only.

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364 September 1988

Put Your Ideas Into Motion.

Ideas have always had tremen-
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Now MacroMind® makes
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VideoWorks //™, along with its
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of having to rely on expensive
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the producer and director of
your own animated, multi-
media presentations.

Marketing presentations,
training materials, demonstra-
tions and storyboards can all be
enhanced and brought to life by
the use of any or all of the multi-
media features available with
VideoWorks II and Macintosh.
Animation in color or black &
white, with or without sound, is
a tool you can now utilize both
economically and quickly with
professional quality results.

If your business depends on
getting people to move on your
ideas, it can be worth your
while to put your ideas into
motion— with MacroMind
and VideoWorks II.

VideoWorks II*

The program that
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With VideoWorks II, you
create animated slide
shows from McPaint, PICT
or Glue documents, then
add clip animation and
sound for a true multimedia
presentation.

VideoWorks II features
advanced animation
techniques, text editing,
graphic tools, color
printing, a database for
artwork, and digitized
sound.

It comes with everything
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VideoWorks II
Utilities

HyperCard^^ Driver —
Apple provided the
vehicle. MacroMind lets
you drive it.

With a single command,
you can play any Video-
Works II document inside
HyperCard!

Professional-quality
sequences can be ani-
mated directly on top of
HyperCard, in a window or
across the entire screen, in
color or black & white. By
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Stackware’“ with ani-
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sound.

Accelerator—

Accelerate your ideas
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You can accelerate any
VideoWorks II document
easily.

Accelerator takes an
animation and speeds it up
to near digital-video quality.
It works with color or black
& white movies, and plays
sound along with the
animation.

VideoWcKKs II. Clip Animaiion. Clip Charts
and Clip Sounds are trademarks ot MacroMind
Inc. HyperCard. Slackware and Macintosh
are trademarks of Apple Computer. Inc O 1988
MacroMind Inc

VideoWorks II
Accessories
Clip Animations'^ —

Enhance your presen-
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You don’t have to be an
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An array of digitized sound
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Create exciting presenta-
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effects and music. In-
cludes a program which
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Works II and HyperCard.
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User Groups Directory

Syracuse Apple Users Group, Box 6586, Teal Avenue Station, Syracuse, NY 13217, 315/677-3660. Macintosh/ Apple //.

Colgate Macintosh Users Group, Box K2009, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346, 315/824-9877. Unwersity-Macintosb only.
Mac-RUG, 113 Glen Rd. S, Rome, NY 13440, 315/336-8060. Macintosh/ Apple 11.

Upstate Apple Users Group, RD 1, Box 17-A, 99 Commercial Dr., Whitesboro, NY 13492, 315/793-5911. Macintosh/Apple //.
Potsdam College Mac Users, 5 Missouri Ave., Potsdam, NY 13676, 315/265-2396. Vniversity-Macintosh/Apple 11.

MUG One, 2 Walling Blvd., Oneonta, NY 13820, 607/432-0131. Macintosh only.

STAC, 1968 North Rd., Vestal, NY 13850. Macintosh/Apple 11.

Southern Tier Apple Core, 98 Oak St., Binghamton, NY 13905, 607/529-8880. Macintosh/Apple ll.

Rainbow Country User Group, 2850 Daniels Rd., Wilson, NY 14172. Macintosh only.

Apple Byters’ Corps, Inc., 42 Moeller St., Buffalo, NY 14211, 716/695-5857. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Rochester Apple CIDER, 75 Wood Creek, Pittsford, NY 14534. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Banana Byte User Group, 29 Chartwell Ct., Rochester, NY 14623, 716/475-3672. University-Macintosh/ Apple II.

MacRIT, College Alumni Union, Room A295, One Lomb Memorial Dr., Rochester, NY 14623,

716/475-2054. UniiHirsity-Macintosh only.

Apple-Ace Computer Club, 92 Elm Grove Rd., Rochester, NY 14626, 716/225-8850. Macintosh/Apple II.

MUGUR, University of Rochester, Box 29052, Rochester, NY 14627, 716/275-1485. University-Macintosh only.

Mugwump, Computer Services-Uris Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, 607/255-8321. University-Macintosh only.

North Carolina

Triad Apple Core, P.O. Box 1710, Greensboro, NC 27402, 919/725-7860. Macintosh/ Apple II.

University of North Carolina MUG, P.O. Box 907, Carrboro, NC 27510, 919/962-3601. University-Macintosh otily
Apple Seeds, P.O. Box 28623, Raleigh, NC 27611, 919/779-3519. Macintosh only.

Greenville Mac User Group, 125 Greenwood Dr., Greenville, NC 27834, 919/551-4440. Macintosh only.
Davidson Apple User’s Group, PO. Box 2251, David.son, NC 28036. University^ -Macintosh/ Apple II.

Charlotte Apple Computer Club, P.O. Box 221913, Charlotte, NC 28222, 704/542-8596. Macintosh/Apple II.
Fayetteville Macintosh Users’ Group, Box 42224, Fayetteville, NC 28309, 919/484-1424. Macintosh/Apple II.

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All you have to do is put PYRO! in your system
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User Groups Directory

Macintosh Apple Corp of Wilmington, 2840 S. College Rd., #320, Wilmington, NC 28403. Macintosh only.
Catawba Valley Byte 32, UG, Rt. 1, Box 540-19ab, Conover, NC 28613, 704/256-7035. Macintosh only
Brass Apple Users Group, Rt. 1, Box 158, iMurphy, NC 28906, 704/837-8035. Macintosh/Apple II.

North Dakota

G.E Apple Sj^.U.C.E., 1804-A I St., Grand Forks Air Force Base, ND 58205, 701/594-5542. Macintosh/Apple II.
Apple Polisher, 1112 Glacial Dr., Minot, ND 58701, 701/838-6444. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Minot Macintosh Users, 2600 23rd St. SW, Minot, ND 58701, 701/857-6183. Macintosh only.

Ohio

Buckeye Macintosh Group, 2041 College Rd., Ohio Slate University, Department of Ceramic Engineering, Columbus, OH 43210,
614/626-6209. University— Macintosh only

Central Ohio Apple Computer Hobbyists, 4351 Apley Fl., Columbus, OH 43229, 614/475-1271. Macintosh/Apple II.

Bowling Green Macintosh User Group, College of Technology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403,
419/372-6005. University-Macintosh only.

University of Toledo Macintosh Users, Carver Education Center, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606,

4 1 9/537-2835 . Macintosh/Apple II.

Zanesville Area Macintosh Users Group, 930 Garden Rd., Zanesville, OH 43701, 614/452-6289. Macintosh only.

Tri-State Computer Association, 142 Susan Dr., Wintersville, OH 43952, 614/264-7006. Macintosh/Apple II.

OMUG, do Dan Handalain II, OOMR 1240, Oberlin, OH 44074. University-Macintosh only

CWRU Macmug, do Tom Evans, Business Office, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106,

2 1 6/368- 201 1 . University-Macmtosh only.

North Coast Mac Users Group, 21190 Erie Rd., Rocky River, OH 44116, 216/835-3636. Macintosh only.

NEO Apple Corps, 31481 Cedar Rd., Mayfield Heights, OH 44124, 216/953-6083. Macintosh/Apple II.

Mahoning Valley Apple Computer, 5066 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren, OH 44483, 216/847-9223. Macintosh/ Apple II.

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Macintosh Poster

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User Groups Directory

Country Computer Club, 530 High St., Wooster, OH 44691, 216/264-9285- Macintosh/ Apple //.

COW Macintosh Users Group, Box C-3162, College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, 216/263-2444. University-Macintosh only.
Mac2, Box 35693, Canton, OH 44735, 216/494-4074. Macintosh only

Applejack Users Group, 331 S. Market St., Galion, OH 44833, 419/468-3542. Macintoslj/ Apple II.

North Coast Computer Users, P.O. Box 2055, Sandusky, OH 44870, 419/625-6200. Macintosh/ Apple II.

MACincinnati, 1642 Pullan Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45223, 513/741-4329- Macintosh only.

Apple Siders of Cincinnati, Box 14277, Cincinnati, OH 45250, 513/741-4329- Macintosh/ Apple II.

Antioch Mac Users Group, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH 45387, 513/767-7331- University-Macintosh only
Apple-Dayton Users Group, RO. Box 3240, Dayton, OH 45401, 513/293-8114. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Athens Apple Users Group, 31 Central Ave., Athens, OH 45701, 614/592-2202. University-Macintosh/ Apple II.

Findlay Apple Computer Club, 7426 TR 136, Findlay, OH 45840, 419/424-0401. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Oklahoma

The Big Red Apple Group, P.O. Box 3077, Norman, OK 73070, 405/329-2952. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Oklahoma City Apple Users Group, Box 19561, Oklahoma City, OK 73144, 405/681-0397. Macintosh/ Apple II.
Tish Apple, Murray State College Library, Tishomingo, OK 73460, 405/371-2371. University-Macintosh/Apple II
Southwest Oklahoma Apple Orchard, Box 6646, Lawton, OK 73506, 405/536-9365. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Altus Apple Users Group, 609 Taft St., Altus, OK 73521, 405/477-1533- Macintosh/Apple II.

Enid Appleseeds, Rt. 1, Box 8, Douglas, OK 405/234-3382. Macintosh/Apple II.

Bartlesville Users of Macintosh Society, 6523 Trail Dr., Bartlesville, OK 74006, 918/333-6536. Macintosh only.

G.C.CA., P.O. Box 497, Tlilsa, OK 74101, 918/749-8804. Macintosh/Apple II

Hilsa Users of Macintosh Society, Box 470564, Tulsa, OK 74147, 918/438-3851. Macintosh only

Oregon

Hood River Apples User Group, 3553 Dethman Ridge, Hood River, OR 97031, 503/354-1233- Macintosh/Apple II
Lower Columbia Apple Users Group, P.O. Box 1043, Astoria, OR 97103, 503/325-4768. Macintosh/Apple II.

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User Groups Directory

Oregon Apple II User Group, c/o Arthur Young & Company, 1001 S.W Fifth Ave., #2000, Portland, OR 97204,
503/225-1623. Macintosh/Apple II.

Portland Macintosh Users Group, Box 8895, Portland, OR 97207, 503/228-1779. Macintosh only
Macintosh Business Group of Oregon, 10240 S.W Nimbus Ave., #L-11, Tigard, OR 97223, 503/620-0866. Macintosh only.
Salem Macintosh Users Group, Water Resources Dept., Resource Management, 3850 Portland Rd. NE, Salem, OR
97310, 503/399-9411. Macintosh only.

MUG of Corvallis, 520 N.W Oak, Corvallis, OR 97330, 503/753-1040. Macintosh only.

Oregon Coast MUG, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR 97365, 503/867-3011. Macintosh only.

Eugene Macintosh Group, Box 10988, Eugene, OR 97440, 503/683-5565. Macintosh only.

Apple Blossom Club, Box 638, Winston, OR 97496, 503/679-8458. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Mac Users of the Rogue Valley, 181 Rustic Canyon Dn, Grants Pass, OR 97526, 503/479-0642. Macintosh only

Pittsburgh Apple Business Users Group, 1317 Corkwood Dr., Monroeville, PA 15146, 412/373-3903. Macintosh only.
Carnegie-Mellon Mac Users Group, Skibo 103, 5000 Forbes Ave., Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15221,

4 1 2/268-3457. Unit vrsity-Macintosh ofily.

Pitt Macintosh User Group, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pitt.sburgh, PA 15260,

412/624-8349. University-Macintosh only

Waynesburg College Appiers, xMath & Computer Science Dept., Waynesburg, PA 15370. University-Macintosh^ Apple //.
Monroeville Apple Users Group, P.O. Box 124, Hiller, PA 15444, 412/785-8029. Macintosh/Apple II.

Uniontown Apple Computer Club, P.O. Box 433, Republic, PA 15475, 412/246-2870. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Apple Pits, RD 2, Box 171, Acme, PA 15610. Macintosh/Apple //.

lUP Mac Users Group, 331 Walnut St., Indiana, PA 15701. University-Macintosh only.

Apple Butler Users Group, Box 39, Meridian Station, Butler, PA 16001, 412/789-7031. Macintosh/Apple II.

Erie Apple Crunchers, Box 1575, Erie, PA 16507, 814/453-3555. Macintosh/Apple II.

Bottom of Barrel, 2613 Eighth Ave., #3b, Altoona, PA 16602, 814/946-1423. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Macintosh User Group, 115 Main St., Bradford, PA 16701, 814/362-7791. Macintosh only.

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User Groups Directory

Pennsylvania Apple Microcomputer User Group, 306 Ravendale Rd., Furnace, PA 16865, 814/237-9757. Macintosh only.
Capital Area Macintosh Users Group, 1017 Yverdon Dr., Camp Hill, PA 17011, 717/737-6357. Macintosh only.

PennMUG, Box 952, Carlisle, PA 17013, 717/243*5838. Macintosh only.

Hershey Apple Core, Box 634, Hershcy, PA 17033, 717/838-2952. Macintosh/Apple //.

Lancaster County Apple Corps, 249 Julia Avc., Sirasburg, PA 17579, 717/687-8574. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Franklin & Marshall Macintosh User Group, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604. University-Macintosh only.
Lehigh Valley Macintosh User Group, 505 Forrest Ave., Bethlehem, PA 18017, 215/691-1125. Macintosh only.

Eastern Pennsylvania Macintosh User Group, 243 Spring Garden St., Easton, PA 18042, 215/253-4380. Macintosh otily
MUG Shop, Box 388, Southampton, PA 18966, 215/464-4763. Macintosh only.

DUsers, James Creese Student Center, 32nd & Chestnut Sts., Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104,

215/895-2573. University-Macintosh only.

DV&DUMUG, do Melanie Hoag, Drexel University, Office of Computing Services, Philadelphia, PA 19104,

215/895-2997. University-Machitosh only.

PennMUG, 1202 Blockley Hall, LJniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, 215/898-9085. University-Macintosh only.
Jefferson Macintosh User’s Group, 561 Thompson Bldg., Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107,

2 1 5/928-8655- Unit ersity-Macintosh only.

Chester County Computer Club, Normandy Circle, Glenmoore, PA 19343. Macintosh/Apple //.

Great Valley Macintosh Users Group, 9 Lloyd Ave., Malvern, PA 19355, 215/644-3997. Macintosh only.

AntMUG, PO. Box 157, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462, 215/279-5912. University-Macintosh only.

Berks Apple Club, 720 Warren St., Reading, PA 19601. Macintosh/ Apple //.

MacBug, do C. H. Briggs Hardware, P.O. Box 15188, Reading, PA 19612. Macintosh only.

Rhode Island

Apple Fritters, 55 Ebony Ct., North Kingstow’n, RI 02852. Macintosh/Apple //.

BrUMUG, Box D, Brown University, Providence, Rl 02912, 401/863-1419. University-Macintosh only.
Rhode Island Apple Group, 450 Brook St., Rumford, RI 02916, 617/226-2275. Macintosh/Apple II.

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South Carolina

Central South Carolina Apple User Group, RO. Box 2552, Cayce, SC 29171. Macintosh/ Apple II.

So. Carolina Users of Macintosh, 6432a Two Notch Rd., Columbia, SC 29223, 803/786-6100. Macintosh only.
MUSC Mac User Group, 171 Ashley Ave., Charleston, SC 29425, 803/792-2486. University-Macintosh only.
Coastal Macs, 1018-A S. Hollywood Dr., Surfside Beach, SC 29575, 803/626-9856 (Fred). Macintosh only.
Mac 1, 4614 Old Sparianberg Rd. #8PV, Taylors, SC 29687, 803/268-9667. Macintosh only.

South Dakota

Team Mac, RO. Box 203, Yankton, SD 5^078, 605/665-5177. Macintosh only.

Apple Core of Siouxland, Box 90002, Sioux Falls, SD 57105, 605/339-7115. Macintosh/Apple II.

Black Hills Apple Users Group, 719 N. Maple, Rapid City, SD 57701, 605/348-9173- Macintosh/ Apple II.

Tennessee

Macinteresteds, 235 Lauderdale Rd., Nashville, TN 37205, 615/327-1757. Macintosh only.

Tristate Apple Club, 2532 Hickory Ridge Dr, Chattanooga, TN 37421, 615/751-5718. Macintosh/Apple II.
MacClique, Rt. 3, Box 352, Clinton, TN 37716, 615/574-0855. Macintosh only.

Apple Core of Memphis, RO. Box 241002, Memphis, TN 38124, 901/728-4898. Macintosh/Apple II.

Medical Center MUG, 877 Madison, Seventh Fl., Memphis, TN 38163. Macintosh only.

Northwest Tennessee MUG, c/ojim Clark, Department of Math, University of Tennessee, Martin, TN 38238,
901/587-2225. University-Macintosh only.

Texas

The Mac Pack, RO. Box 832446, Richardson, TX 75083, 214/783-1261. Macintosh only.

Mac-A-Roos, Campus Box 290, Austin College, Sherman, TX, 75091, 214/892-4364. University-Macintosh only.

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after the first few times it’s been used. It enhances employee
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improves communication and underetanding between associates.
Real Easy

RealTalk” comes with diskette, users manual and is
supported by an experienced communication department. So
answers are easy to get. And there’s always someone available to
discuss usage of the program.

Real Nice Price

RealTalk” costs only $79-95 for one program package. Or
$ 219.95 for three.

For more information write: InterNet System Corporation,
11732 Bowman Green Drive, Reston, VA 22090.

Or call: 703-435-8170.

.Macintosh, Appletalk, Ethertalk are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. Real is a trademark of

tnterSet System Corporation 0 1988 Internet System Corporation

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376 September 1988

Apple Coip of Dallas, 11212 Indian Trail, Dallas, TX 75229, 214/357-9185. Macintosh/ Apple II.

East Texas Computerists, 10613 Old Mill Rd., Greenville, TX 75401. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Texarkana Apple Byters, 192 Lakeshore, Texarkana, TX 75501, 214/838-0243. Macintosh/Apple II.

Longview Computer Users Group, Rl. 4, Box 300, Gilmer, TX 75644, 214/734-4591. Macintosh/Apple II.
lyier Area Macintosh Users, RO. Box 131254, TVler, TX 75713, 214/595-4541. Macintosh only.

Nac Mac Users’ Group, 4304 Friar Tuck, Nacogdoches, TX 75961, 409/564-0512. Macmtosh only.

SEA Apple Computer Club, 225 E. Spradley #2, Nacogdoches, TX 75961, 409/560-4170. University-Macintosh/Apple II

Tarrant Apple Group, 912 W Broadway, Fori Worth, TX 76104, 817/332-3341. Macintosh/Apple II

Ft. Worth Mac Users Group, 1212 Florentine Dr, Fort Worth, TX 76134, 817/293-0357. Macintosh only.

Texoma Mac-Apple Club, 103B Matador, Wichita Falls, TX 76311. Macintosh/Apple II

Apple Tree, 2805 Del Norte, Temple, TX 76502, 817/771-4524. Macintosh/ Apple II

Apple S.T.E.M., Box 1508, Copperas Cove, TX 76522. Macintosh/Apple II

Nasa Area Macintosh Users, 12885 Gulf Frwy., Houston, TX 77034, 713/481-5600. Macintosh only.

HAAUG, 3200 Kirby, #101, Houston, TX 77098. Macintosh/Apple II

UH Mug, 627 Arnold Hall, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, 713/749-4551. University-Macintosh only.

The Mouseketeer Mac User Group, P.O. Box 19030 #150, Houston, TX 77224, 713/531-8728. Macintosh only.

Rice Mac Users Group/ICSA, P.O. Box 1892 Icsa, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251, 713/527-4986. University -Macintosiy only.
Humble Mac Users Group, 1230 FM I960 E #1301, Humble, TX 713/540-2975. Macintosh only.

Texas A&M Macintosh Users Group, Department of Entomology, do R. Thomas, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843,
409/775-5518. UtJiversity-Macintosh only

Apple Hill Country User Group, Rt. 2, Box 293, Comfort, TX 78013, 512/995-3352. Macintosh/ Apple II
New Braunfels Apple User Group, 165 Bobolink, New Braunfels, TX 78130, 512/625-1314. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Mac Enthusiasts of San Antonio, 15442 River Bend, San Antonio, TX 78247, 512/496-5043. Macintosh only.

Univ. of TX Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr., San Antonio, TX 78284, 512/567-4400. University-Macintosh only.

River City Apple Corps, Box 13449, Austin, TX 78711, 512/454-9962. Macintosh/Apple II
University Macintosh Users Group, Texas Union Box 320, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78713,

512/471-8684. University-Macintosh only.

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A MULTITUDE OF FONT
ENHANCEMENTS r

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fingertip!

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Macworld 377

Who Needs
Another

Paint

Program?

Anyone Who Wants:

FreshPaint™ • Custom Tools • Texture Tool • High Ferformance •
TIFF File Compatibility • Save In MacPaint, PICT, TIFF And
Cricket Paint Formats • Graded Tints • Pop-Up Palettes •
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Document View * Auto Scrolling * SpBt-Screen Zooming *
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Hyper Polygon • Smooth Polygon • Pen Tool • Line Tool •
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Radial Mode • Invert Paint • Pattern Fill • Darken And
Lighten Selection Command * Auto Text Wrap * Selectable
Text Style Attributes • Text Alignment • Margin And Tab

We’ve been asked why Cricket
Software would introduce a black and
white paint program when the whole
world is making so much noise about
color. Frankly, we feel it’s obvious:
There are more than 1.5 million* mono-
chrome Macintosh® users — Apple®
hasn't abandoned them and neither have
we. Plus, we felt there was still a lot
of room for improvement over the
current best selling paint program.

So, we revved up our monochrome
Macintoshes in the best Cricket
Software tradition and developed
the new standard:

Cricket Paint.

Feature-rich
power

Cricket Paint
is loaded with
features. Powerful

features with more capabilities than
you thought possible.

Our FreshPaint”* feature treats your
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completely flexible
until you deselect
it to create “dry
paint’’ bitmap im-
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output documents at
resolutions from
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Create your own
textures and tools.
Then save them for
future use.

In addition to the
standard Cricket
Paint format, you
can import or save
your flies in TIFF,
MacPainf**, and
PICT formats.

Another member of the
First Family of Graphics

Cricket Paint is the latest in the
Cricket family of graphics productivity
software, Cricket Graph, Cricket Draw,
Cricket Pict-O-Graph, Cricket Presents,
Cricket Expression Device Drivers.
Cricket Software. The leader in
graphics productivity software.

*Bascd on market studies.

cflcket

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(215) 251-9890

Apple, Macintosh. Macintosh Plus, Macintosh SE. and
Macintosh It are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc.
MacPaint is a trademark of CLARIS Corp.

(§> Copyright 1988 Cricket Software, Inc.

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User Groups Directory

Mac xMob, 7226 W 34lh, #507, Amarillo, TX 79109, 806/358-8570. Macintosh only.

Apple Info & Data Exchange, PO. Box 30878, Amarillo, TX 79120, 806/373-9478. Macintosh/ Apple II.
Panhandle Apple Club, Box 30878, Amarillo, TX 79120, 806/373-9478. Macintosh/Apple II.

Big Red Apple Group, 4402 Catrock Rd., Abilene, TX 79606, 915/698-0329. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Click Clique, 708 W Pine Ave., Midland, TX 79705, 915/682-4305. Macintosh only.

El Paso Macintosh User Group, 412 Pocano Ln., El Paso, TX 79912, 915/584-9507. Macintosh only

Utah

MacNewton, P.O. Box 833, Bountiful, UT 84010, 801/295-8560. Macintosh only.

Gnuton, PO. Box 201, Clearfield, UT 84015. Macintosh/Apple II.

Macdig, 3440 MEB Computer Center, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. Universityf-Macintosh only.

University of Utah Macintosh Users, 4608 Lanark Rd., Salt Lake City, UT 84124. University-Macintosh only.

Medical Center Small Computer User Group, Med Informatics, AB 193, Medical Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
UT 84132. University-Macintosh only.

Ogden Apple Users Group, P.O. Box 4035, Ogden, UT 84403, 801/776-0164. Macintosh/Apple II.

BYU Macintosh Users Group, 3146 JKHB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602. University -Macintosh only
Canyon Country Apple User Group, Capitol Reef Np, Torrey, UT 84775, 801/425-3414. Macintosh only.

Vermont

Green Mountain Apple Club, do Rod Stone, 13 Clems Dr., Essex Junction, VT 05452. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Virginia

Northern Virginia Apple Users, PO. Box 8211, Falls Church, VA 22041, 301/899-4005. Macintosh/Apple II.

Greater Reston Area Macintosh, 11080 Thrush Ridge Rd., Reston, VA 22091, 703/860-0765. Macintosh only.

Rappahonock Apple User Group, 6014 Battlefield Green Dr., Fredericksburg, VA 22401, 703/786-6577. Macintosh/Apple II.

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irs TIME

TO GET OUT
OF THE DARK.

Open your eyes and see just how many
subjects are covered in the new edition
of the Consumer Information Catalog.

It’s free just for the asking and so are
nearly half of the 200 federal publica-
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Consumer Information Catalog, which is
updated and published quarterly. It’ll be
a great help, you’ll see. Just write:

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Department TD
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380 September 1988

Monthly Specials A IN N.J. 201-832-9004

MacMemory Turbo SE $ 379 FAX: 201-832-9740

Dove MacSnap 548E 399 VISA/MC/AMEX

DoveMacSnap548S 479 > W DISCOVER/OPTIMA

Practical 2400 Modem g fmM§ ^

*Microphone Communications Software |y •'computer

*Modem cable

*5 Year Warranty $ 235

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These sys/ems are_gaarcinteed B> be complete and reads/ to nm (m missing. parts f» caiyfes).
If these systems do not meet pour needs, call our systems sales diuisi o/i an d they will help
yokuJesign a system to meet your specific needs.

IN N.J. 201-832-9004
FAX: 201-832-9740
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HARDWARE & ACCESSORIES

computer sales

Macintosh SE/40 Deluxe System

New!

Complete System includes;

^Macintosh SE Comi>uter with 2 800K Internal Drives,
1 Megabyte of Memcjry, Evercx 40 Megabyte Internal
Hard Driv6, Extended Keyboard and Mouse
^ImageWriter II Printer
‘Image Writer Cable
‘HyperCard Software
‘Sony Diskettes — Box of 10
‘Dust Cover for the Mac SE
‘Dust Cover for the ImageWritcr II
‘Computer Paper — Case of 1200

Suggested list price S4624

CDA PRICE $3499

When ordering specify package #881 IB

Macintosh SE Super System

Complete System includes:

‘Macintosh SE Computer with
2 Internal 800K Drives
1 Megabyte of Memory
Keyb^rd and Mouse
‘InfrageWriter II Printer
‘ImageWriter Cable
‘HyperCard Software
‘Maxell Diskettes Box of 10
‘Computer Paper Package of 500
‘Dust Cover for the Macintosh SE
‘Dust Cover for the ImageWriter II
‘Head Cleaning Kit
‘Mouse Pad

Suggested list price $3689

CDA Price $2749

When ordering specify package #8802

Macintosh SE/20 Super System

Same as the above system but includes Macintosh SE
with built in 20 megabyte hard disk and 1 interna! 800K
floppy.

Suggested list price $4489

CDA Price $3349

When ordering specify package #8803

Macintosh Plus Entry System
with MaeWrite

New!

Complete System includes:

‘Macintosh Plus Computer with 1 Megabyte of memory
& 1 Interna) 800K Drive Keyboard and Mouse
‘Cutting Edge 800K External Drive
‘ImageWriter II Printer
‘ImageWriter Cable
‘MaeWrite Word Processing Software
‘HyperCard Software
‘Sony Diskettes — Box of 10
‘Computer Paper — Package of 500
‘Dust Cover for Macintosh Plus
‘Dust Cover for ImageWriter II
‘Mouse Pad

Suggested list price $3017

CDA Price $2199

When ordering specify package S8815

Macintosh 11/40 Graphic System

Now with 256 Color Option!

Complete System includes:

‘Macintosh II Computer with
40 Megabyte Hard Drive
1 Megabyte of Memory
Extended Keyboard and Mouse
‘Macintosh II Video Card
‘Expanded Video Option
‘Apple Color High Resolution RGB Monitor
‘ImageWriter II with Cable
‘HyperCard Software
‘Maxell Diskettes — Box of 10
‘Case of Computer Paper — 1100 Sheets
‘Dust Cover for the Macintosh Il/Monitor
‘Dust Cover for the Extended Keyboard
‘Head Cleaning Kit
‘Mouse Pad

Suggested list price $7849

CDA Price $5999

When ordering specify package #8825
Above system with 20 Megabyte Hard Disk
specify package #8824

CDA Price $5499

Above system with 80 Megabyte Hard Disk
specify package #8826

_ CDA Price $6999

EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES
CMS

Our pricing is so low that we have
been requested by CMS not to
publish our pricing Please Call

Evercx

EMAC 20D (68ms) $ 529

EMAC 20 Deluxe (68ms) 599

EMAC 40 (29ms) 859

EMAC 40 Deluxe (29ms) 995

EMAC 60 Deluxe (38ms) 1095

EMAC 91D (18ms) 1599

EMAC 91 Deluxe (18ms) 1699

EMAC 40 with 60 Meg Tape 1769
EMAC 60 with ^ Meg Tape 2095
EMAC 91 with 60 Meg Tape 2999
Rodime
20 Plus (65ms)

45 Plus (29ms) o a 1 1

60 Plus (29ms) CALL

100 Plus (29ms)

140 Plus (29ms)

SuperMac

DataFrame 30XP Meg (65ms) $ 899
DataFrame 60XP Meg (29ms) 1249
DataFrame XP60+40 (29ms) 2149

DataFrame XP60+B (29ms) 2599

INTERNAL HARD DRIVES
CMS

Internals for MacSE & Macll

Please Call

Everex

EMAC 40iD (29ms) $ 799

EMAC 60iD (38ms) 999

EMAC 91iD (18ms) 1499

Rodime

Internals for MacSE & Mac I

Please Call

ACCESSORIES

Abeton ProPoint Mouse $135
Apple Extended Keyboard 199
Data Desk 101 Keyboard ABD 135
Data Desk 101 Keyboard-Plus 135
Epic Internal 2400/Mac II 349
Kensington Turbo Mouse ABD 89
Kensington Turbo Mouse-Pis 89
Kensington Masterpiece Mac II 115
Kensington System Saver SE 59
Kensington Anti-Glare Filter 39
SCANNERS

Microtek MSF-300C Flatbed $1499
Microtek MSF-300G Grey Scl 2745
Thunderware Thunderscan 4.0 199

PRINTERS

(prices include required cable)

Apple ImageWriter II $ 479

Image II Sheetfeeder 179

Apple ImageWriter LQ 1099

Image LQ Sheetfeeder 239

Apple LaserWriter IISC 2299

Apple LaserWriter IINT 3799

Apple LaserWriter IIMTX 5295

Grapler C/MAC/GS 79

G rapier LQ 89

DISK DRIVES

Apple 3.5 Disk Drive $319

PC 5.25 Disk Drive 329

Central Point 3.5 195

Cutting Edge 800K 189

Dayna File MS DOS Drives CALL

APPLE HARDWARE
Macintosh Plus $1349

Macintosh SE-Keyboard 2249

Macintosh SE/20-Keyboard 2899

Macintosh II w Ext Keyboard 3149

Mac 11/40 w Ext Keyb^rd 4399

Extended Keyboard 199

MONITORS

Apple

Mac II Monochrome Mon $329

Mac II RGB Monitor 799

Sigma Designs

LaserView SE $1799

LaserView II 1799

(include required video card)

Raster Ops

16" Color Trinitron $2245

19" Color Trinitron 3145

Video Display Cards
For Mac I!

Mac 11 Video Adapter
with video upgrade $509

Mac II Video Upgrade 119

Raster Ops

Color 108 — 8 Bit Video Card $1149

MEMORY & ENHANCEMENT

1 Megabyte Upgrade (II) $ 299

2 Megabyte Upgrade

(for SE & Plus) 849

4 Megabyte Upgrade (II) 1698

AST

Mac 286 Coprocessor
Dove

MacSnap Plus 2 (MacPIus) $340

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fied with any Hardware or Accessories purchased from CDA Computer
Sales, we will refund the purchase price 100%! (Software excluded.)
Warranty— On top of the manufacturer’s warranty, we offer a 30-day
defective exchange policy— if hardware or accessory fails in the first 30
days, we will replace that item with a brand new product.

Apple Product— We are not an authorized Apple dealer; therefore dur-
ing the 90-day warranty period, the product must be returned to CDA
for warranty repair.

Shipping Charges — UPS Ground Shipping, add 2% ($3.50 minimum);
UPS Blue Service, add 5% ($5.50 minimum); APO/ FPO Shipping, add
4% ($4.50 minimum); Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Canada, add 6%
($6.50 minimum). Foreign Orders, please call.

Payment— Major Credit Cards accepted at no additional charge. Cash-
ier Checks and Money Orders shipped promptly; personal checks are
held 10 days for clearing. No COD’s please.

Prices are subject to change.

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IBM is a registered Trademark of International Business Machines.
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User Groups Directory

Shenandoah Macintosh User Group, 15 Southgate Ct., Harrisonburg, VA 22801, 703/433-1527. Macintosh only.

Greater Richmond Area Macintosh, P.O. Box 524, Richmond, VA 23204, 804/344-5638. Macintosh only.

Tidewater Apple Worms, PO. Box 68097, Virginia Beach, VA 23452. Macintosh/Apple II.

Tidewater Area Mug, 5313 Marlington Dr., Virginia Beach, VA 23462. Macintosh only.

Peninsula Apple Core, Box 6384, Newport News, VA 23606, 804/838-6681. Macintosh/ Apple II
Hampton Sydney College Mug, Hampton-Sydney, VA 23943, University-Macintosh/Apple II
Macintosh Users’ Group of Roanoke, 1916 Belleville Rd. SW, Roanoke, VA 24015, 703/343-8614, Macintosh only
Lynchburg Computer Society, Box 2073, Lynchburg, VA 24501. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Danville Apple User Group, Averett College, Danville, VA 24541. University-Macintosh/ Apple II

Sweet Briar College Macintosh Users’ Group, Box 73, Sweet Briar, VA 24595, 804/384-7430. University-Macintosh only.

Washington

Compushare, 16010 East Shore Dr., Lynnwood, WA 98037, 206/743-2324. Macintosh /Apple II

Northwest Association of Mac Users, 22845 N.E. Eighth, #104, Redmond, WA 98053, 206/868-5943- Macintosh only.

Macintosh Downtowm Business Users, PO. Box 3463, Seatttle, WA 98114, 206/363-9056. Macintosh only.

SeaMac MUG, 6517 45th Ave. S, Seattle, WA 98118, 206/723-5427. Macintosh only

MacAnt, Antioch University, 2607 Second Ave., Seattle, WA 98121, 206/441-5352. University-Macintosh/Apple II
Macdub, 145 Savery Hall, MS Dk45 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, 206/543-8110. University -Macintosh only.
North End Apple Users Group, 4027 C Rucker, #850, Everett, WA 98201, 206/339-8557. Macintosh/Apple II
Bellingham Macintosh Users Group, 2300 James St., #1C, Bellingham, WA 98225, 206/671-4013. Macintosh only.
M.U.I.N.T.Y., PO. Box 826, Coupeville, W\ 98239, 206/278-4409. Macintosh only.

Club Mac of Tacoma, 6016 55th St. NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98335. Macintosh only.

Mac Connection, PO. Box 1271, Silverdale, WA 98383, 206/692-7753- Macintosh only.

UPS MUG, 1500 N. Warner, Tacoma, WA 98416, 206/756-3568. University-Macintosh only
Northwest Apple Pickers, 10314 Lyris Ct. SW, Tacoma, WA 98498, 206/475-7162. Macintosh/ Apple II
South Puget Sound Macintosh, 407614 13th Ave. NE, Olympia, WA 98506. Macintosh only.

Yakima Area Macintosh Users, c/o Snokist Growers, 18 W Mead Ave., Yakima, WA 98907, 509/966-7773- Macintosh only,
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THE FINEST MACINTOSH
LUGGAGE AVAILABLE

The Finest Luggage available for the Macintosh anywhere at any price.

Each bag comes with a comfortable professional shoulder carry strap, not a
cheap, painful piece of plastic. Dividers and pockets on the inside with two
additional pockets on the outside distinguish the MacBag from many “rag
bags" on the market now. Available in assorted colors for SE, SE with
extended keyboard, and Imagewriters. Also available with backpack straps.

We also manufacture freight cases for shipping or the frequent flyer. The
only way to transport a Mac II or LaserWriter. The Best in Custom Cases.

T 1 -pi pVtPI plrP'r Industry Drive, Seattle WA 981 88

Call Us at 1-800-228-7042 or 1 -206-575-1180

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HOWDOVOUGETAJOB
WITHOUT EXPERIENCE?
ANDHOWDOTOUGET
EXPERIENCE
WITHOUT A JOB?

Most young people have
one answer to this problem.
They avoid it until they’re out of
college. But they could be get-
ting solid work experience while
they’re still in college. With
your company’s help. And ours.

We’re Co-op Education. A
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But we can’t do it without
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Like yours.

For more information on
how you can participate in
this valuable program, write
Co-op Education, Box 775E,
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Not only will you be giving
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Co-op Education.

You earn a future when you earn a degree.

382 September 1988

Now you can feed high-resolution four
color artwork directly into your computer sys-
tem, and get color reproductions that will
astound you with their accuracy.

The new Sharp JX-450 makes it possi-
ble— a desktop phenomenon that marks a
quantum leap in publishing and presentation
graphics systems.

Sharp s resolution of 300 dots per inch
provides scanning equal to conventional con-
sole types, and gives accurate, finely detailed
images with every nuance captured. Also,

64 shade gradations for each element seize
the subtlest details, and yield a color tone
capacity of over 260,000 shades. Even when
you use it with a black or white Mac system,
it gives superior grey gradations and
middle tones.

Scanning capacity is up to IT'x 17— enough to
scan a two page spread. It will also scan 35mm and
overhead projection film with an optional mirror
unit. Picture, if you will, how a two-page spread of
finely colored images could enhance and drama-
tize your presentations.

All this, in an attractive desktop size.

To create exquisite, economical hard
copies of your color graphics. Sharp also
offers the companion JX-730 four
color inkjet printer.

Once again. Sharp shows
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mation: 1-800-BE-SHARR

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FROM SHARP MINDS
COME SHARP PRODUCTS'"

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« 1987 Sharp Electronics Corp.

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User Groups Directory

Macintosh Owners & Users Society of Ellensburg, 704 N. Water, #1, Ellensburg, WA 98926,

509/925-5280. Umversity-Macituosh only.

Palouse Area Microcomputer Association, Physics Department, Washington State University, Pullman, W\ 99164,
509/335-9531. University-Macintosh/ Apple II.

North Idaho Mac Users Group, W. 927 Glass, Spokane, WA 99205, 509/328-4974. Macintosh only.

Macs, N. 1010 Bates, Spokane, WA 99206, 509/467-2400. Macintosh only.

Mid Columbia Macs, 523 N. Nevada St., Kennewick, WA 99336, 509/375-3797. Macintosh only.

Computer Literacy & Support Society, P.O. Box 335, Pomeroy, WA 99347, 509/843-3542. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Wisconsin

Watertown Macintosh Users Group, Box 354, Watertovsn, WI 53094. Macintosh only.

Pro-Mac, c/o Green Associates, 520 S. Second St., Box 464, Delavan, WI 53115, 414/728-4300. Macintosh only.

Wisconsin Apple User Group, 2511 l^bble Valley Rd., Waukesha, WI 53188. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Double Click MUG, 3016 N. Summit Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53211, 414/964-3147. Macintosh only.

Racine-Kenosha Macintosh User Group, do RAM BBS, P.O. Box 85303, Racine, WI 53405, 414/552-9474. Macintosh only.

Green Bay Mac Users, 1513 Traeger St., Green Bay, WI 54304, 414/498-1873. Macintosh only.

Macamazons MUG, Rt. 1, Box 43B, Eland, WI 54427. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Mara-Wood Mac, Marshfield Clinic, 1000 North Oak Ave., #4e, Marshfield, WI 54449, 715/387-8038. Macintosh only.

UWSP MacGroup, P.O. Box 21, College of Prof. Studies-UWSP, Stevens Point, WI 54481, 715/346-4436. University-Macintosh only.
Apple Personnel Prog. & Learning, c/o Cbm Computers, 3521 Eighth St. S, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494,

715/424-2131. Macintosh/ Apple II.

La Crosse Apple Users Group, 711 Division St., I^ Crosse, WI 54601, 608/784-9162. Macintosh/Apple II.

Madison Macintosh Users’ Group, Box 1522, Madison, WI 53701, 608/251-2885. Macintosh only.

Eau Claire Apple Users Group, Box 61, Eau Claire, WI 54702, 715/723-1301. Macintosh/ Apple II

Chippewa Falls Macintosh Users Group, 1020 Olive St., Chippewa Falls, WI 54729, 715/723-2256. Macintosh only.

Menomin-Apples, 1521 Sixth Ave. E, Menomonie, WI 54751, 715/235-9749. Macintosh/Apple II.

Appleton Apples, Box 2785, Appleton, WI 54913, 414/731-7091. Macintosh/Apple II.

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The Apple Net, 2203 Park A\^., Orchard Valley, Cheyenne, WY 82007, 307/632-4934. Macintosh/Apple II.
Wyoming Mac Enthusiasts, 921 Ranger Dr., Cheyenne, WY 82009, 307/632-3668. Macintosh only.
Casper Area Macintosh User Group, RO. Box 80, Casper, WY 82602, 307/266-0570. Macintosh only.
Sheridan Micro User Group, P.O. Box 142, Sheridan, WY 82801, 307/674-4954. Macintosh/ Apple II.

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Amateur Radio Computer Users of MA, 47 Erin Rd., Stoughton, MA 02072, 617/341-2639. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Computer Kids International, 77 Rockport Rd., Weston, MA 02193- Macintosh/ Apple II.

MacForth Users Group, Box 3081, Wesnille Station, New Haven, CT 06515, 203/777-5618. Macintosh only
Mac Law, c/o S.M. Kurtzer, 87 Franklin Ave., Nutley, NJ 07110, 201/235-0200. Macintosh only.

Computer Hebrew User Group, 21 Bennet Ave., New York, NY 10033, 212/397-6695. Macintosh/Apple II.

CPA Computer Users Group, RO. Box 56, Narberth, PA 19072, 215/664-6775. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Apple Users Group International, do H. Joseph Dobrowolski, P.O. Box 913, Langley AFB, VA 23665,

Macintosh/ Apple II. International focus.

Mac Needler’s, 5149 Woodside Dr., Columbus, OH 43229, Macintosh only.

Micro MD, 244 Frederick St., Lexington, OH 44904, Macintosb/Apple II.

Mac ly^pe Net Users Group, P.O. Box 3009, Farmington Hills, MI 48333, 313/477-2733. Macintosh only. PostScript focus.

United Methodist Apple Users, 17825 Primrose Ln., Brookfield, WI 53005, 414/781-6925. Macintosh/ Apple II.

SMARTMac, P.O. Box 11626, St. Paul, MN 55111. Macintosh only. Mensa members and others.

American Bar Association Macintosh Users Group, 79 W Monroe, #1320, Chicago, IL 60603, 312/782-6495. Macintosh only.
The Associated Landlords of Kansas, Box 732, Topeka, KS 66601, 913/232-4476. Macintosh only.

SiGMAChem, Texas Tech University, Chemistry Department, Lubbock, TX 79409, 215/895-1861,

806/742-3057. University-Macintosh only.

Desktop Publishing Association, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, CO 80302, 303/442-1000. Various Computers.

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Rotate and frame. Create halftones and
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User Groups Directory

Mac Engineering User Group, 1035 Tantra Park Circle, Boulder, CO 80303. Macintosh only.

Macintosh Construction Forum, RO. Box 1272, Sandpoint, ID 83864. Macintosh only.

Aviation & Computer Enthusiasts, 2009 Camelot Dr., Las Cruces, NM 88005, 505/526-5645. Macintosh! Apple II.
Macintosh Entertainment Guild of America, 1032 N. Sycamore St., Mollv'wood, CA 90065, 213/653-0240. Macintosh only.
UCSD Pascal User Society, RO. Box 1 148, La Jolla, C A 92038, 303/526-0057. Various computers.

The Realtors Mac User Group, 18023 Sky Rark Circle, #F-2, Irvine, CA 92714, 714/261-1930. Macintosh only.

Apple Professional Exchange, 1142 Stonylake Ct., Sunn>^ale, CA 94086, 408/745-0665. Macintosh only.

Christian Macintosh User Group, 1737 N. First St., #300, San Jose, CA 94112, 408/437-1913. Macintosh only.

Focus, the Computer Society for Doctors, RO. Box 15579, San Francisco, CA 94115. Various computers.

The Disabled Children’s Computer Group, 2095 Rose St., Berkeley, CA 94709. Macintosh/ Apple II.

Apple HyperCard User Group, 20525 Mariani Ave., MS 27AN, Cupertino, CA 95014, 408/974-1707. Macintosh only.
National Assn. Blind & Vis. Impaired, RO. Box 1352, Roseville, CA 95661, 916/782-5518. Macintosh/Apple II.

MacApp Developer’s Association, Box 23, Everett, WA 98206, 206/252-6897. Macintosh only.

NATIONAL USER GROUPS

Boston Computer Society, One Center Plaza, Boston, MA 02108, 617/367-8080. Various computers.

Boston Computer Society Mac User Group, 48 Grove St., Somerville, MA 02144, 617/625-7080. Macintosh only.

Apple Ambassadors Information Network, RO. Box 416, Mountain Rd., Raymond, NH 03077, 603/895-3009. Macintosh/ Apple II.
Information clearinghouse for user groups.

Apple Users Group International, RO. Box 913, Langley Air Force Base, VA 23665, 804/764-7686. Macintosh/ Apple II.

National Lisa & Macintosh Users Group, Box 450676, Miami, FL 33245, 305/385-1203. Macintosh only.

Tiu, 1113 Wheaton Oaks Dr., Wdieaton, IL 60187, 312/653-7640. Macintosh/Apple II-Business focus.

BMUG, 1442A Walnut St., #62, Berkeley, CA 94709, 415/849-9114. Macintosh only,

A.P.P.L.E. Co-op, 290 S.W' 43rd St., Renton, WA 98055, 206/251-5222. Macintosh/Apple II.

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...get SuperGLUE ‘

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“SuperGlue's underlying concept is
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Macintosh Buyer's Guide, '88

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MacGolf

Enthusiastic players
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MacGolf puts you in the picture,
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MacGolf is so close to the real
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Even if you’ve never been on
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MacRacquetball turns your
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ball. With the mouse, you have com-
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Two people can play the same game
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tation includes reference and tuto-
rial manuals. SoftSync, Inc, 162
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Adobe Illustrator 88 adds freehand
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Free if purcha.sed after January 14,
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Aztec C version 3.6 offers full MPW
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Card/Fax 1988 (Topps, Donruss, and
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Disk Tools Plus is now compatible
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1820 Gateway Dr., San Mateo, CA
94404, 415/571-7171. Free when
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Dollars & Sense version 4.1b s en-
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60185, 312/293-7271. $29.95 with
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SoftWear Plot produces publica-
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MacSon/e

Financial

Rosponsiblo Party

File Interchange

Histories

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Diagnostic

Audit & Backup

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MacDrums™

MacDrums^'^ is a software drum
machine. It is a self-contained, fully
programmable, MIDI-compatible,
polyphonic drum synthesizer and
sequencer program that incorpo-
rates digital samples of 35 real per-
cussion instruments. Add a whole
new dimension to the creative use
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( Office Mgmt.

Order House

Integrated business environment,
Order House is a multiuser, multi-
station application that integrates
all the functions of a business. In-
cludes sales and purchase orders,
invoices, inventory, and accounting.
Also features notes and lisi-mgmt.,
pictures, forms-mgmt., labels, and
merged letters. We specialize in
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( Payroll )

IWo Powerful Programs!

Aatrix Payroll J. 01
Automatically calculates, accumu-
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Tax tables may be edited. Prints W2
forms. Payroll record backup. 3-sec.
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Aatrix Payroll Plus
Features include everything in
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Prints form 1099 & miscellaneous
checks. Itemizes different hourly
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sick pay & anniversary dates. And
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• Prints checks and W-2 forms

• Flexible-easy to use! Requires
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P.O. Box 600
Los Alamos, NM 87544
(505) 672-1998

Printer choice on your Mac

The PRINT UNK^^

For graphic printing with a wide variety of
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Daisywheel printers and lasers (in Qume or
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Cables optional $22.95

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REMS Investor Series
CCIM recommended. Multi-year cash
flow projections and analysis, amorti-
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and export to Excel.

REMS Investor 3000 imports from
Excel, handles partnerships, ground
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Real Estate Software

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■ Property Manager

Accounting system for multiple propenies.
Ideal for investors who manage their own
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Property Management

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A Sophisticated investment analysis
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Property Management

Comprehensive program for man-
aging residential and commercial
properties. Many management re-
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Provides check writing, check rec-
onciliation, posting late fees, recur-
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analysis-$245.

Yard! Systems, 930 Laguna St.,
Santa Barbara, CA 93101,
805/966-3666

Loan Amortization

AmPack is a straightfonx'ard loan-
amortization software package de-
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Pack supports variable rates, grad-
uated, skipped, & principal-only
payments. Also includes balloons,
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schedules, loan analysis, & more.
S49.50+ $5s/h.McVlSA.

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414/778-7200

( Recreational )

MacTides

Now enjoy sailing, boating or fish-
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data. Tide height, tidal current;
unique day plots, month plots, ta-
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5 regions; 5200 stations. $79 per re-
gional disc. VISA/MC. Sample print-
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ext. 1009.

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Retail Engine^, the complete point of
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MarketMaster for Mac

Automatic Sales Inquiry Follow-up!
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Scientific

Classified Materiel
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SIMS, (Security Information
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Statistics

clranova

Analysis of v'ariance program that
can compute up to a 10-way design
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interactions, simple effects, range
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Clear Lake Research, 561 5
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TX 77005, 7131523-7842

“An excellent toolkit that
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RATS! Version 2.1

Best-selling econometrics software
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New! New! New!

HyperBook “ Maker

$59.95

• Prints your HyperCard stack as
a collated, ready-to-staple book.

• Your book
can show
the cards
full size,
half size,
or 1/4 size.

• Another print option: both sides,
8-1/2” XII” notebook format.

• For LaserWriter or ImageWriter.

• Scripts not protected.

• Bonus utility: select cards from
any stacks. In any order, and
create a new stack automatically.

MacLabeler®

• Labels disks fast. $49.95

• Lists files under each folder.

• Lets you choose and edit names.

• Shows date and
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• Eight borders.

•512k, Plus, SE.

• ImageWriter.

• 60 QuickLabels^

DiskOuick"'

$49.95

• Catalogs hard disks and floppies.

• Powerful “Subset” file locater.

• Shows Info box comments.

• Exports catalog to database.
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• IW or LaserWriter

• MacGuide rates it
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Multi-Window Outlining

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Organize your work in an Outline
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numbering; multiple clipboards,
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Product Index

Reader

Service

Number

■ Software

Business

103 Aairix Software, 278
224 Access Technolog}' (Mindwriie
Div), 256-257

252 Access Technolog^' (Trapeze
Div), 256-257
— Acius, 1(X)

221 Adobe S\’siems, 56-57
329 Aldus Corporation, 104-105
49 Allan Bonadio & Associates, 324
146 Alpha Micros}'stems, 353
73 Ashion-Tate Corporation. 30-31
462 AST Research. Inc., 233
10 Bedford Software, 351
199 Borland International, 17
229 Brainpower Inc., 373
183 Bravo Technologies, Inc., 32
130 CE Software, Inc., 329
581 Check Mark Softw-are, Inc., 344
316 Christian Q^py Craft, 268
— Claris Corporation, 10-11
— Compugraphic Corporation, 241

165 Design Science, 432

155 Dubl-Click, 343
71 Educorp, 280

152 Box Software, 35

156 Great Plains Softw are, 272-273
138 Greene, Inc., 303

255 Human Intellect Systems, 266
151 Innovative Data Design, 88-89
— Intuit, Inc., 83
128 Layered, Inc., 124
34 MacroMind Inc., 365
37 Meca Ventures, Inc., 375
271 Mediagenic, 114
464 Mediagenic, 115
175 Microsoft Press, 38
— Microsoft, IFC-1, 292-293
160 M/H Group, 290
559 North Edge Software, 223
162 Odesia, 108
312 Odesta, 112
213 Paracomp, 334
553 Peachtree Software, 342
42 Personal Training Systems, 281
345 Personal Writer, 34 i
318 Pro Pius Software, Inc, 274
295 Quark, 235
— Satori Software, 63
297 Shana Corporation, 348
227 StatSoft, 90

215 S)Tnaniec Corp/Living Video-
Tfexi, 14-15

96 Symantec Corp/Thinkiechnolog}', 9
302 Symmetry Corporation, 270
492 Sv'siat, 431
491 Sysiat, 431
— TOPS, 26-27
190 T/Maker,97

126 WordPerfect Corporation, 247

Vertical

166 Ab^-ent, 4

49 Allan Bonadio & Associates, 324
581 Check Mark Software, Inc., 344
77 Diehl Graphsoft, Inc, 304
255 Human Intellect Systems, 266

Reader

Service

Number

318 Pro Plus Software, Inc., 274
299 Sixty Eight Thousand, Inc., 301

Data Management
252 Access Technology (Trapeze
Div), 256-257
— Acius, 100

4 AEC Management Systems, Inc., 331
152 Fbx Software, 35
— GE Information Service, 357
138 Greene, Inc, 303

72 Nashoba Systems, 52-53
292 Preferred Software, 262
317 Preferred Software. 263
302 Symmeir}* Corporation, 270

Ward Processing

73 Ashion-Tate Corporation. 30-3 1
19 Davka Cxjrporation, 304

180 Deneba Softw-are, 44
282 Deneba Softw-are, 47
217 Deneba Software, 45

165 Design Science, 432
28 Microlytics, Inc., 340

201 Microlytics, Inc, 306
175 Microsoft Press, 38
160 Mm Group, 290
2 1 5 Symantec Corp/Living Video-
Tbxt, 14-15
332 T/Maker.IBC
126 WordPerfect Corporation, 247

CAD/CAM

166 Abvent, 4

129 Gimeor Inc., 249
151 Innovative Data Design, 88-89
209 Micro CAD/CAM Systems Inc., 50
213 Paracomp, 334

Communications
462 AST Research, Inc., 233
319 Avatar Technologies, Inc, 217
— Compugraphic Corporation, 241
281 DaiaViz,51

24 1 Digital Communication Asso-
ciates, 106-107
245 DMA, Inc, 421
150 Farallon Computing, 116
313 Learning Tree Software, 376
286 Peripherals Computers & Supplies,
Inc, 46

48 Software Ventures, 28
96 Symantec Corp/Think Tfechnolog}', 9
— TOPS, 26-27
304 T-aveling Software, 36
307 While Pine. 430

Educational

— Apple Computer, 219
225 Authorware, Inc., 294
25 Bible Research. 90
19 Davka Corporation, 304
165 Design Science, 432
71 Educorp. 280
251 Great Vt^e Software, 264

167 Individual Softw-are, Inc., 288
42 PersonalTVaining S\'stems, 281
179 STAX. 58

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— Aba Softw’are, 69-76

166 Abvent, 4

224 Access Tfechudog}' (MindwTite
Div), 256-257

157 Adobe Systems, 86, 296-297

22 1 Adobe Systems, 56-57

— Affinity Microsystems, Ltd., 299
329 Aldus ODrporation, 104-105
35 Alisys, 384
137 Casach'Ware, Inc, 303
— Compugraphic Corporation. 241
15 Cricket Software, Inc. 287
240 Cricket Sof tware, Inc. ,21-23
538 Cricket Software, Inc, 378-379
384 Cricket Software, Inc, 289
400 CTA, 271
282 Deneba Software, 47
180 Deneba Software, 44
2 1 7 Deneba Softw-are, 45
155 Dubl-Click, 343
216 Graphic Notes. 267
254 Howiek, Inc, 225
— Image Club Graphics, Inc, 126

167 Individual Software, Inc, 288
151 Innovative Data Design, 88-89
598 Letrasei USA, 363

270 Management Graphics Netwrork Ser-
vice Center, 255

205 Manhattan Graphics Corpora-
tion, 359

273 Meta Software, 385
200 Postcrafi International, Inc, 377
434 Presentation Technologies, 397
125 Pro-Tech Computer Paper, 213
295 Quark, 235
13 RasterOps, 332-333

297 Shana Corporation, 348

298 Silicon Beach Software, 26l
268 Silicon Beach Software, 260

299 Sixty Eight Thousand, Inc , 301
405 Solutions International, 388
310 Strawberry Tree Computers, 320

2 1 5 Symantec Corp/Living Video-
Text, 14-15

302 Symmetry Corporation, 270
190 T/Maker,97

Personal Bustness/Home
252 Access Tfechnolog}' (Trapeze
Div), 256-257

183 Bravo Technologies, Inc., 32
316 Christian Copy Craft, 268
— Intuit, Inc, 83
297 Shana Corporation, 348
112 Survivor Software. 369
190 T/Maker,97

Networking

1 50 Earallon Computing, 116
— TOPS. 26-27

Music

222 Ars Nov-a Sofiw'are, 328
279 Bogas, 386

188 Coda Music Softw’are, 130

216 Graphic Notes, 267

HyperCard

316 Christian Copy Craft, 268
464 Mediagenic. 115

271 Mediagenic, 114

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Fonts

157 Adobe Systems. 86.296-297

Entertainment
25 Bible Research. 90
279 Bogas, 386
2 1 9 Cemron Software, Inc. 370
256 Icom Simulations, Inc., 302
277 Microillusions. 429
— Mindscape, Inc, 211

289 PCAI.389
291 PCAI.389

290 PCAI,389

268 Silicon Beach Software, 260

198 Spectrum Holobv'te, 122

Utilities

224 Access Technology (Mindwriie
Div), 256-257
202 Alsoft, 258

187 Berkeley System Design, Inc., 34

199 Borland International, 17

7 Central Point Software, Inc, 32 1
311 Fifth Generation Systems, 1 nc. , 23 1
250 Fifth Generation Systems, Inc., 366
138 Greene, Inc., 303
256 Icom Simulations, 1 nc. , 302
261 Kent Marsh Ud, 82
284 Olduvni Corporation, 6-7
179 STAX, 58

237 Symantec Corp/TUrner Hall, 118
56 Virginia Systems Software, 86

Miscellaneous
— Apple Computer, 219
581 Check Mark Software, Inc, 344
293 Safeware, 328

299 Sixty Eight Thousand, Inc., 301

300 Softbisk, Inc, 43
537 Uptime. 5,307

■ Hardware

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3 BDT Products Inc. 291
177 General Computer, 346-347

— Hewlett Packard (regional
run), 376ab

262 Kroy'.Inc, 361

— NEC Information Systems, Inc, 323
104 QMS, 40-41

143 Tektronix, 269

— Tbxas Instruments, 18-19
267 Zericon,428

Boards

462 AST Research. Inc, 233
319 AvaiarTbchnologies, Inc, 217
127 Clearpoint Research Corpora-
tion, 277

68 Computer Friends. 275
241 Digital Communication Asso-
ciates, 106-107

173 Dove (512K), 265

174 Dov^(SE), 265

585 Microtek Lab, Inc., 424
196 National Semiconductor, 109
46 Radius, 98-99

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13 RasrerOps. 332-333
310 Si ra\vberr\- Tree Computers. 320
— SuperMac'ledinologv, 1 10-11 1

Digitizers “Scanners
10^ Abaton. 282-283

230 Oiere Corp. 8-4-8S
4()0 CTA. 2*^1

33~ Datacopy C<3rporaiion. 128
2-i2 Digital Vision Inc.. 2“-t
— I lewkit Packard ( regional
run ). 3’'6ab
2>t Howiek.lnc.. 225

259 Interface Electronics CtiqioraiuMi. 96

585 Micmiek Lib. Inc.. 42-1

32"^ .Shaq') Elect run ic.s Q iq)i irai ion . 383
301 Summagraphics, 32"

P6 Tltunderwaa*. 38“^

55 >Xarp Nine Engineering, Inc.. 426

Modems

10" .Abaion. 282-283
Display

234 Cornerstone Technology. 318-319

101 E-Machines. Inc , 25

586 I n Focus .Systems , 1 nc. .251
33 MegaGraphics, Inc.. 3"1

2"8 Microviiec. Inc.. 62
2"-l Mirage. IDT S\ siems. 345
133 Moniiemi. 22"

283 Nutmeg S\*stems. 42
136 n\ iew Qirporaiion. 392
223 IVtm null Ci nnputer IVr ipherals
Corp.. i35

89 ITinceion Graphics. 305
46 kidias. 98-99
1 1" Sigma Designs. Inc.. 245

Hard Disk/ Storage
85 CMS Enhancements. Inc. 325

231 Control Data Corporation. 215
233 Corel Sy.siems Corporation. 229

9" Crate Technology. 36"

260 Ii^mega Corporation. 48-49
82 Irwin Magnetics. 13-i

102 ja.smine. 80-81
100 jasmine. ^8-*^9
l-*5 LiCie. 5 t

20" Mass Micro vSystems. 9 1
2"5 MicroNet Technology. Inc.. 398
62 Microtech I’eripherals. Inc.. 3'’. 39
19" Optimal Technology Corporation. 68
223 IVrsonal Computer l\.’ripherals
Corp. 435

1 49 Kodime Systems, 59
191 Ruby Sy.stems, 23"

320 Tallgrass Technologies. 33’^

6 Tallgra.sslechnologies, 33'^

321 Tecmar. Inc. 243

Miscellaneous

36 Anco Electronics. Inc., 432
91 .Asher Engineering, 22 1
3 HDT Products Inc. 291
226 Blackhole Technology, Inc., 322
69 Computer Friends, 3‘^4
19 1 Eastman Kt:>dak Company. 239

150 Earal Ion Computing, 116

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586 In D)cus .Systems, Inc.. 25 1
262 Kroy, Inc.. 361
322 Lisergraphics. 395
86 MacPrxKlucisU.SA. 3"'2
33 MegaGraphics, Inc.. 3"1
228 Mims Corporation, 60-61
345 IVr.sonal Wriier, 34 1
434 Preseniat it >n Techni ilogies. 39"
186 Sun Remarketing Sy.siems. 120
304 Traveling .Software. 36
26 Trimar I’SA Inc.. .3(>8
r \eloBind. Inc. 253

■ Accessories

Floppy Diski lolders
218 .MacOiily. 3.30
236 Rorale Data Products. Inc, -i28
208 .Sony Corporation, 205

Furniture

— Anthro, 8

2"6 .Micn)Computer .Accessories. Inc,, 339
2% ScanCoFurn. 12

.Miscellaneous
91 Asher Engineering. 221
69 Computer Friends. 3"4
235 Co Du Co. 3fk)

443 IX'signer Products, -i6
148 Ergot ron. Inc . 355
.30 Kensington Micrinvare Ld.. 132
192 Kensington Microwaa.* Ld.. BC
315 Linebacker. 382
2-»6 Macl.uggage. 2"6
.33 MegaCiraphics. Inc., 3”^1
2"^6 M icn >C< >mputer ,-\cces.s( iries. 1 nc. . 3.39
288 Poster D\ nami.\. 368
1 25 Iko-Tech Computer Paper. 2 1 3
239 Secure-It. Inc, -i30
"4 .Sensible .Softworks. -123

Services

24" Falcon .Microsy.stems. Inc.. 300

— GE Information Service, 35“'

1 95 GE l»C Rental & Lea.se Divisii >n. 209

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9 Bede lech, 315
5 Beverly Mills Computer. 1 1 3
32 CDA Computer Sales. 38 1
193 CMO. 102-10.3
97 Crate jechnology, 36"

562 Diskette Cxninection. .3 1 5
315 Linebacker. .382
— MacConneciion, 136- 111
86 MacProducis L’.SA, .372
78 MaeWarehouse. 64-67
45 Open .Mac, .314
44 Programs Plus. 92-95
.3.35 Public Domain Exchange, 255
236 Riwale Data Producis, Inc. 428
1 4 1 Software That Fits. .308-3 1 2
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Advertiser Index

Reader

Service

Number

103 Aairix Software, 278
— Aba Software, 69-76
107 Abaton, 282-283
166 Abvent, 4

224 Access Technology' (Mindwrite
Dw), 256-257

252 Access Tbchnologv' (Trapeze
Div), 256-257
— Acius, 100

221 Adobe Systems, 56-57,86
157 Adobe Systems, 296-297

4 AEC Mans^ement Systems, Inc., 331
— Affinity Microsystems, Ltd., 299

329 Aldus Corporation, 104-105
49 Allan Bonadio & Associates, 324
146 Alpha Microsystems, 353
202 Alsoft, 258

35 Alisys, 384

36 Anco Elearonics, Inc., 432
— Anthro, 8

— Apple Computer, 219

222 Ars Nova Software, 328
91 Asher Engineering, 221

73 Ashton-Tate Corporation, 30-31
462 AST Research, Inc., 233

225 Authorware, Inc., 294

319 Avatar Technologies, Inc, 217
3 BDT Products Inc, 291

9 Bede Tbch, 315

10 Bedford Software, 351

187 Berkeley System I>esign, Inc., 34

5 Be\'erly Hills Computer, 113
25 Bible Research, 90

226 BlackholeTechnologv, Inc., 322
279 Bogas. 386

199 Borland International, 17

229 Brainpower Inc., 373

183 Bravo Technologies. Inc, 32

230 Caere Corp, 84-85
137 CasadyWare, Inc., 303

32 CDA Computer Sales, 381
130 CE Software, Inc. 329
7 Central Point Software, Inc, 321
219 Centron Software, Inc,, 370
581 Check Mark Software, Inc., 344
316 Christian Copy Craft, 268
— Claris Corporation, 10-11
127 Clearpoint Research Corpora-
tion, 277

193 CMO, 102103
85 CMS Enhancements, Inc, 325

188 Coda Music Software, 130

— Compugraphic Corporation, 24 1

68 Computer Friends, 275

69 Computer Friends, 374

23 1 Control Data Corporation, 215

233 Corel Systems Corporation, 229

234 Cornerstone Technology; 318-319

Reader

Service

Number

235 Co-Du-Co, 386
97 Crate Tbchnology, 367
15 Cricket Software, Inc., 287

240 Cricket Software, Inc, 21-23
384 Cricket Software, Inc., 289
538 Cricket Software, Inc., 378-379
400 CTA, 271

337 Datacopy Corporation, 128

281 DataViz, 51

19 Davka Corporation, 304

282 Deneba Software, 47
180 Deneba Software, 44
217 Deneba Software, 45
165 Design Science, 432
443 Designer Products, 46

77 Diehl Graphsoft, Inc, 304

241 Digital Communication As.so-
ciates, 106-107

242 Digital Vision Inc., 274
562 Diskette Connection, 3 1 5
245 DMA, Inc, 421

173 Dove (512K), 265

174 Dove (SE), 265

155 Dubl-Click, 343

194 Eastman Kodak Company, 239
71 Educorp, 280

148 Ergotron, Inc. 355

101 E-Machines, Inc, 25
134 47st. Computer, 285

247 Falcon Microsystems, Inc, 300

150 Farallon Computing, 116

250 Fifth Generation Systems, Inc. , 366
311 Fifth Generation Systems, Inc., 23 1
152 Fox Software, 35

— GE Information Service, 357

195 GE PC Rental & Lease Division, 209
177 General Computer, 346-347

129 Gimeor Inc, 249
216 Graphic Notes, 267

156 Great Plains Software, 272-273

251 Great Wave Software, 264
138 Greene, Inc., 303

— Hewlett Packard (regional
run), 376ab

254 How’iek, Inc, 225

255 Human Intellect Systems, 266

256 Icom Simulations, Inc., 302
— Image Club Graphics, Inc, 1 26
586 In Focus Systems, Inc, 25 1
167 Individual Softw-are, Inc., 288

1 5 1 Innorative Data Design, 88-89

259 Interface Electronics Corporation, 96
— Intuit, Inc., 83

260 Iomega Corporation, 48-49
82 Irwin Magnetics, 134

125 James River Corporation, 213
100 jasmine, 78-79

102 Jasmine, 80-81

30 Kensington Microware Ltd., 132
192 Kensington Microware Ltd., BC

261 Kent Marsh Ltd, 82

262 Kroy, Inc, 361
145 LaCie, 54

322 Lasergraphics, 395

128 Layered, Inc, 124

313 Learning Tree Software, 376

598 Letraset USA, 363

315 Linebacker, 382

Reader

Service

Number

— MacConnection, 136-141
246 MacLuggage, 276
218 MacOnly, 330
86 MacProducts USA, 372
34 MacroMind Inc., 365
78 MaeWarehouse, 64-67
— Macworld Expo, 436-437

270 Management Graphics Network Ser-
vice Center, 255

205 Manhattan Graphics Corpora-
tion, 359

207 Mass Micto Systems, 91
37 Meca Ventures, Inc., 375

271 Mediagenic, 114
464 Mediagenic, 115

33 MegaGraphics, Inc., 371

273 Meta Software, 385

209 Micro CAD/CAM Systems Inc, 50

276 Microcomputer Accessories, Inc., 339

277 Microillusions, 429
28 Microlytics, Inc, 340

201 Microlytics, Inc, 306
275 MicroNet Tbchnologv, Inc., 398
— Microsoft, IFC-1, 292-293
175 Microsoft Press, 38
62 Microtech Peripherals, Inc, 37, 39
585 Microtek Lab, Inc., 424

278 Microvitec, Inc., 62
— Mindscape, Inc, 211

274 Mirage/IDT Systems, 345
228 M i rus Corporat ion, 60-6 1
133 Moniterm, 227

160 M/H Group, 290
72 Nashoba Systems, 52-53

196 National Semiconductor, 109

— NEC Information Systems, Inc., 323
559 North Edge Software, 223

283 Nutmeg Systems, 42
136 nView Corporation, 392
162 Odesta, 108

312 Odesta, 112

284 Olduvai Corporation, 6-7
45 Open Mac, 314

197 Optimal Technology Corporation, 68
213 Paracomp, 334

289 PCAl, 389

290 PCAI, 389

291 PCAI, 389

553 Peachtree Software, 342
286 Peripherals Computers & Supplies,
Inc, 46

223 Personal Computer Peripherals
Corp., 435

42 Personal Training Systems, 281
345 Personal Writer, 34i
200 Postcraft International, Inc., 377
288 Poster Dynamix, 368

Reader

Service

Number

292 Preferred Software, 262

317 Preferred Software, 263

434 Presentation Technologies, 397
89 Princeton Graphics, 305

318 Pro Plus Software, Inc, 274
44 Programs Plus, 92-95

335 Public Domain Exchange, 255
104 QMS, 40-41

295 Quark, 235
46 Radius, 98-99

13 RasterOps, 332-333
149 Kodime Systems, 59

236 Rovale Data Products, Inc, 428
191 Ruby Systems, 237

293 Safeware, 328

— Saiori Software, 63

296 ScanCoFurn, 12
239 Secure-It, Inc., 430

74 Sensible Softworks, 423

297 Shana Corporation, 348

327 Sharp Electronics Corporation, 383
117 Sigma Designs, Inc., 245
268 Silicon Beach Software, 260

298 Silicon Beach Software, 26l

299 Sixtv Eight Thousand, Inc, 301

300 Softbisk,Inc,43

1 4 1 Software That Fits, 308-3 1 2
48 Software Ventures, 28
405 Solutions International, 388
208 Sony Corporation, 205
198 Spectrum Holobvte, 122
227 StatSoft, 90
179 STAX, 50

310 Strawberry Tree Compuiens, 320

301 Summagraphics, 327

1 86 Sun Remarketing Systems, 1 20
— SuperMac Technology, 110-111
112 Survivor Software, 369
215 Symantec Corp/Living Video-
Text, 14-15

96 Symantec CorpTThinkTechnologv', 9

237 Symantec Cor p/TUrner Hall, 118

302 Symmetry Corporation, 270

491 Systat, 431

492 Systat, 431

6 Tallgrass Technologies, 337

320 Thllgra.ss Technologies, 337

321 Tfecmar, Inc, 243
143 Tbktronix, 269
307 Telemart, 390-391

— Texas Instruments, 18-19
285 The New PC Network, 313
176 Thunderware, 387
— TOPS, 26-27

304 Traveling Software, 36

26 TrimarUSAInc, 368
53 Tlissey, 87

190 T/Maker,97
332 T/Maker, IBC
537 Uptime, 5, 307

305 USAFIex/Comark, 316

27 VeloBind, Inc, 253

56 Virginia Systems Software, 86
55 Warp Nine Engineering, Inc., 426
307 White Pine. 430
1 26 WordRjrfect Corporation, 247
267 Zericon,428

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751 Aatrix Payroll. Aatrix Software, Inc, RQ Box 5359, Grand Forks, ND 58206, 701/746-7202, 800/426-0854.

752 Accountant, Inc. Softsync, Inc, 162 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016, 212/685-2080.

753 ACCPAK Easy for the Mac. Computer A.ssociates International, Inc, 1240 McKay Dr., San Jose, CA 95131, 408/432-1727, 800/531-5236.

754 Acta. Symmetry Corp, 761 E. University Dr., Ste. C, Mesa, AZ 85203, 602/844-2 1 99, 800/624-2485.

755 AffiniFile. Affinity Micmsystems, Ltd., 1050 Walnut St.. #42, Boulder, CO 80302, 303/442-4840, 800/367-6771.

756 Alchemy. Blank Software, 1 477 Folsom St., San Francisco CA, 94 1 03, 41 5/863-9224.

757 Apple File Exchange. Apple Computer, Inc., 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014, 408/996-1010.

758 AppleShare File Server. Apple Computer, Inc, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino, CA 950 1 4, 408/996-101 0.

* Artisto. Public Domain Software.

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* Back to Basics: Professional Accounting. I^^achtree Software, 4355 Shackleford Rd., Norcross, GA 30093, 404/564-5700, 800/247-3224.

759 Bill-lt. ShopKeeper Software, Inc., RO. Box 381 60, Tallaliassee, FL 3231 5, 904/222-8808.

* BiPlane. Shareware by Alan Porter, 17352 Du\ ey Lane, Huntington Beach, CA 92647.

* Browser. (Available to members only), APDA, 290 S.W 43rd St., Renton, \VA 98055, 206/25 1 -6548.

760 Business Sense. Monogram Software, 531 Van Ness Ave., Tornince, CA 90501 , 213/533-5 1 20.

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761 Calculator-f . Borland International, 4585 Scotts Valley Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066, 408/438-8400, 800/255-8008.

762 Calculator Construction Set. Dubl-Click Software, Inc., 18201 Gresham St., Northridge, CA 91325, 818/349-2758.

* Camera. Freeware by Keith A. Esau.

763 Canvas. Deneba Softw^e, 7855 N.W 12th St., #202, Miami, FL33126, 305/594-6965, 800/622-6827.

764 Canvas DA. Deneba Software, 7855 N.W 12th St., #202, Miami, FL 33126, 305/594-6965, 800/622-6827.

765 CheckMark Cash Ledger. CheckMark Softw^are, Inc., 1 520 E. Mulberry, Ste. 200, Ft. Collins, CO 80524, 303/484-354 1 , 800/444-9922.

766 CheckMark MultiLedger. CheckMark Software, Inc., 1 520 E. Mulberry, Ste. 200, Ft. Collins, CO 80524, 303/484-3541 , 8(X)/444-9922.

767 CheckMark Payroll. CheckMark Software, Inc., 1 520 E. Mulberry, Ste. 200, Ft. Collins, CO 80524, 303/484-354 1 , 800/444-9922.

768 Color Space II. Mass Micro Systems, Inc., 550 Del Re\' Ave., Sunnv'v'ale, CA 94068-3528, 408/522- 1 200, 8(X)/522-7979.

769 ColorWie SE. Orchid Technology; 45365 Northport Loop W, Fremont , C A 94538, 4 1 5/683-0300.

770 Comic Strip Factory. Foundation Publishing, 5 100 Eden Ave., #307, Minneapolis, MN 55436, 6 1 2/925-6027.

771 CompuData Translators. CompuData Translators, Inc., 3325 WiLshire Bh d., # 1 202, Los Angeles, CA 90010, 800/825-8251 .

772 Course of Action. Authorware, Inc., 8500 Normandale hike Blvd., #1050, Minneapolis, MN 55437, 612/921-8555.

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773 Data Pak. Mass Micro Systems, Inc., 550 Del Rey Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94068-3528, 408/522- 1 200, 800/522-7979.

774 DaynaFile. Dayna Communications, Inc., 50 Main St., 5ih FL, Salt Lake City, UT 84144, 801/531-0203, 800/531-0600.

775 dBASE Mac. Ashton-Tate, 20101 Hamilton Ave., Torrance, CA 90502-1319, 213/329-8000.

* dCAD Calculator. Shareware bv’ Desktop CAD, Inc.

776 DeskPaint. Zedcor, Inc., 4500 E. Speedway; #22, Tucson, AZ 8571 2-4567, 602/881-81 0 1 , 800/482-4567

777 Disktools II. Electronic Arts, 1820 Gateway Dr, San Mateo, CA 94404, 415/571-7171.

778 DiskTop. CE Software, Inc., 1854 Fuller Rd., We.st Des Moines, lA 50265, 515/224-1995.

779 DMP Series Plotters. Houston Instrument, 8500 Cameron Rd., Austin, TX 78753, 5 1 2/835-0900, 800/444-3425.

780 DoubleTime-l6. Aox Inc, 486 Totten Pond Rd., Waltham, MA 02154, 617/890-4402.

781 DPX-2000 Series Plotters. Roland Digital Gmup, division of Roland Corp., 7200 Dominion Circle, Los Angeles, CA 90046, 213/685-5141 .

782 DraftMaster I. Hewlett-Packard Co., San Diego division, 1 6399 W Bernardo Dr, San Diego, CA 92 1 27-1899, 800/752-0900.

783 DraftMaster II. Hewlett-Packard Co., San Diego division. 1 6399 W Bernardo Dr, San Diego, CA 92 1 27- 1 899, 800/752-0900.

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784 DraftPro. Hewlett- I^ckard Co., San Diego division, 1 6399 W Bernardo Dn, San Diego, CA 92 1 27- 1 899, 800/752-0900.

785 Draw It Again, Sam. Aba Software Inc., P.Q Box 850, Frazer, PA 1 9355-091 5,21 5/644-3580, 800/234-0230.

786 DXY-Series plotters. Roland Digital Group, division of Roland Corp., 7200 Dominion Circle, Los Angeles, CA 90046, 213/685-5141.

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787 Easy Checks. Bar Sofn^-are, Inc., PO. Box 1 089, V^couver, \XA 98666. 206/694- 1 539

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788 Family Heritage File. Starcom Microsystems, Windsor Park E, 25 W, 1480 N, Orem, UT 84057, 801/225-1480.

789 Family Roots. Quin.sept, Inc, PO. Box 216, Lexington, MA 02173, 617/641-2930, 800/637-7668.

790 Flexw'are. Microfinancial Corp., 15404 E. Valley Blvd., Industry, CA 91746, 818/961-0237, 800/527-6587.

791 Font/DAJuggler Plus. ALSoft, Inc., PO. Box 927, Spring, TX 77383-0927, 713/353-4090.

792 FoxBASE+/Mac. Fox Software, 1 18 W South Boundary, Perrysburg, OH 43581, 419/874-0162.

793 FullPaint. Ashton-Taie, 201 01 Hamilton Ave., Torrance, CA 90502-1319, 213/329-8000.

794 FulIWrite Professional. Ashton-Tate, 20101 Hamilton Ave., Torrance, CA 90502-1319, 213/329-8000.

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795 Gofer. Microlytics, Inc., 300 Main St., East Rochester, NY 14445, 716/377-0130, 800/828-6293. ‘

796 GraphieWorks. Mindscape, Inc, 3444 Dundee Rd., Northbrook, IL 60062, 312/480-7667, 800/221-9884.

797 Great Plains Accounting Series. Great Plains Software, 1701 S.W 38th St., Fargo, ND 58103, 701/281-0550, 800/325-8697.

798 GRX Series Plotters. Roland Digital Group, division of Roland Corp., 7200 Dominion Circle, Los Angeles, CA 90046, 213/685-5141.

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* HeapShow. B/T Confuting Corp., PO. Box 1465, Euless, TX 76039, 817/267-1415.

799 HP 7475A. Hewlett-Packard Co., San Diego division, 1 6399 W Bernardo Dn, San Diego, CA 921 27-1 8S>9, 800/752-0900.

800 HP 7550A. Hewlett-Packard Co., San Diego division, 163S>9 W Bernardo Dn, San Diego, CA 92127-18S>9, 800/752-0900.

801 HyperDA. Svmmetrv Corp., 761 E. Universitv Dn, Ste. C, Mesa, AZ 85203, 602/844-2199, 800/624-2485.

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802 In-Housc Accoumant. Migent, Inc, 865 Tahoe Blvd. Call Box 6, Incline Village, NV 89450, 702/832-3700, 800/633-3444.

803 Insight Expert Accounting Series. Layered, Inc., 529 Main St., Boston, MA 02129, 617/242-7700.

804 Insight OneWrite. Layered, Inc., 529 Main St., Boston, M A 02 1 29, 617/242-7700.

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• Joliwrite. Shareware bv Benoit Wideman, 68 Ave. d’ltalie, Paris, France 75013-

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805 Kiwi Envelopes. Kiwi Software, Kiwi Envelopes division, 6546 I^ardall Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93117, 805/685-4031 .

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806 LascrPaint Color II. LaserVC^ire, Inc., P.Q Box 668, San Rafael, CA 94915, 415/453-9500, 800/367-6898.

807 Lookup. Working Software, Inc., 321 Alvarado St., Ste. H, Monterey, CA 93940, 408,675-2828, 800/33 1 -432 1 .

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808 Mac-II-TV Video Interface. Comtrex Ltd., PO. Box 1450, El Tbix^ CA 92630, 714/855-6600.

809 Mac+PC SE. PerfecTek Corp., 1455 McCarthy Blvd., Milpitas, C A 95035, 408/263-7757.

810 MacEnvelope. Synex, 692 10th St., Brooklyn, NY 11215-

81 1 MacGene. Applied Ideas, Inc, PO. Box 3225, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, 213/545-2996.

812 MacLink Plus. DataViz, Inc, 16 Winlield St., Norwalk, CT 06855, 203/866-4944.

813 MacNET. Connect, Inc., 10101 Bubb Rd., Cupertino, CA 95014, 408/973-01 10, 800/262-2638.

814 MacPaint. Claris Corp., 440 Clyde Ave., Mountain View, CA 94040, 415/960-1500, 800/334-3535.

815 McSink. Signature Software, 2151 Brown Ave., Bensalem, PA 19020, 215/639-8764.

816 MDA Multiuser Desktop Accounting Circo Business Solutions, 1725A Little Orchard St., San Jose, CA 95 1 25, 408/998-1 132, 800/458-7466.

817 Model 1043GT. CalComp Inc, 241 1 W La Palma Ave., Anaheim, CA 92801, 714/821-2000, 800/225-2667.

818 Microphone II. Software Ventures Corp., 2SK)7 Claremont Ave. #220, Berkeley, CA 94705, 415/644-3232.

• miniWriter. Public Domain Software.

819 MockWrite. CE Software, Inc, 1854 Fuller Rd., W Des Moines, lA 50265, 515/224-1995.

820 Model 1042GT. CalComp Inc, 2411 W La Palma Ave., Anaheim, CA 92801, 714/821-2000, 800/225-2667.

821 Model 1044GT. CalComp Inc, 2411 W La Palma Ave., Anaheim, CA 92801, 714/821-2000, 800/225-2667.

• MPW C. ( Av-ailable to members only) APDA, 290 S.W 43rd St., Renton, WA 98055, 206/251-6548.

• MPW Pascal. (Available to members only) APDA, 290 S.W 43rd St., Renton, WA 98055, 206/251-6548.

• MPW Shell. (Available to members onlv) APDA, 290 S.W 43rd St., Renton, WA 98055, 206/251-6548.

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822 Notepad -f-. Borland International, 4585 Scotts Valley Dr., Scotts Valley, CA 95066, 408/438-8400, 800/255-8008.

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Systat.

The only
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Graphics Overlay plots PostScript support
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Voronoi Tesselations Minimum spanning
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Three dimensional: Data plots Smooth
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823 NTSC Converter. Julian Systems, Inc., 220 Bates Ave., Ste. J, Concord, CA 94520, 4 1 5/686-4400.

824 NuVista. Truevision, Inc., 7351 Shadeland Station, #1, Indianapolis, IN 46256, 317/841-0332.

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825 101 Macros for Excel. Macropak International, 19855 Stevens Creek Blvd., #168, Cupertino, CA 95014, 408/996-8143.

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826 PageMaker. Aldus Corp., 41 1 First Ave. S, Seattle, WA 98104, 206/622-5500.

827 Payroll Bridge. Software Bridge, Inc., 9730 S. Seventh E, #203, Sandy, UT 84070, 801/572- 1 133.

828 PC 695A. Hoaston In.strument, 8500 Cameron Rd., Austin, TX 78753, 512/835-0900, 800/444-3425.

829 Plains & Simple OneWrite Accounting. Great Plains Software, 1701 S.W 38th St., Fargo, ND 58103, 701/281-0550, 800/325-8697.

830 Postcard.s. Activision, Inc, 3885 Bohannon Dr., Menlo Park, CA 94025, 4l 5/329-0800.

831 Pro-Cite for the Macintosh. Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc., P.O. Box 4250, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, 313/996- 1 580.

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832 QuickDex. Greene Inc., 1 5 Via Chualar, Monterey, C A 93940, 408/375-09 1 0.

833 Quicken Intuit, Inc., 540 University Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301, 415/322-0590, 800/624-8754.

834 QuickShare. Compatible Svstems Corp., P.O. Drawer 17220, Boulder, CO 80308, 303/444-9532, 800/356-0283.

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835 Rags to Riches Accounting Series. Chang Labs, 5300 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose, CA 95 1 29, 408/^246-8020, 800/972-8800.

836 RasterOps ColorBoard 64. RasterOps Corp., 10161 Bubb Rd., Cupertino, CA 95014, 408/446-4090.

837 RasterOps ColorBoard 104. RasterOps Corp., 10161 Bubb Rd., Cupertino, CA 95014, 408/446-4090.

838 Redux. Microseeds Publishing, Inc., 4702 N. Hesperides Ave., Tampa, FL 336 14,81 3/878-2 1 42.

839 Reports. Activision, Inc, 3885 Bohannon Dr., Menlo Park, CA 94025, 415/329-0800.

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840 SBT Database Accounting Library. SBT Corp., One Harbor Dr., Sausalito, CA 94965, 4 1 5/33 1 -9900.

841 ShopKeeper. ShopKeeper vSoftware, Inc, PO. Box 38160, Tallahassee, FL 32315, 904/222-8808.

842 Simply Accounting. Bedford Software Corp., 15311 N.E. 90th, Redmond. WA 98052, 206/883-0074.

843 Smart Alarms/Appointment Diary. Imagine Software, 1 9 Bolinas Rd., Fairfax, C A 94930, 4 1 5/453-3944.

844 SmartScrap & The Clipper. Solutions International, Inc., 29 Main St., Montpelier, VT 05602, 802/229-0368.

845 SoftPC. Insignia Solutions, Inc., Cupertino, CA 95015-0399, 408/446-2228.

846 SP600. Enter Computer, Inc., 6867 Nanq^ Ridge Dr., San Diego, C A 92 1 2 1 , 6 1 9/450-060 1 , 800/356-2808.

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I depend on sold programs for a living.’’

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“You do have a right to make a back-up, that’s true.
But when you start copying programs for your
friends and co-workers, that’s breaking the law.’’

"What law? Any copying I do is in the privacy of my own
home.”

“It doesn’t make any difference where you do it.
Every time you copy a program without permission
from the publisher, you’re committing a federal
offense.”

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“You’re missing the point. The issue isn’t “What
can I get away with?” — it’s “who am I hurting?”

Remember, lots of people worked hard to produce
every program you use: designers, programmers,
distributors, retailers, not to mention all the
people who support users. They have a right to be
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really.”

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6 5 MacDraw Claris

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10 7 SuperPaint Silicon Beach Software

- 8 WordPerfect for the Macintosh WordPerfect

- 9 6R2is^M2icAshton-Tate

10 MacPaint

Education Software

1 1 Math Blaster Davidson & Associates

2 2 Reader Rabbit The Learning Company

4 3 Typing Thtor IV Simon & Schuster Computer

Software

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- 5 Typing Made Easy QED Information Sciences

Entertainment Software

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2 2 Flight Simulator Microsoft

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Product Watch

Editors’ choice: Other recent or forthcoming products
of particular interest.

Mac Architrion Gimeor 3-D CAD
software

Montage FRl Presentation Tech-
nology film recorder

Swivel Paracomp 3-D modeling
program

Networking/Data Communications

1 1 TOPS TOPS

3 2 LocalTalk (formerly AppleTalk)

Apple Computer

2 3 Apple Computer

4 4 PhiOne^^tFarallon Computing

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Source. Exclusive InfoCorp survey of more
than 125 Macintosh retailers and selected
mail-order suppliers. Covers sales during
May 1988.

*Does not include hard disks installed at the
factory.

440 September 1988

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Our users love WriteNow — a claim our competition can't
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letters.

We've heard dramatic stories about how WriteNow has
significantly reduced training and support costs. And how
clean, fast, and enjoyable it is to use. And how WriteNow
got the job done when our competition sputtered.

You see, at T/Maker we feel a great word processor is
more than just a stockpile of features. It's the usability of
those features — how easy they are to learn and use, and
how they feel under your fingertips when doing real work.

And from their overwhelmingly terrific response, it’s
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WriteNow 2.0 is the user's choice for best Macintosh
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Mall merge, 100,000-word dictionary, Cureorkey support,
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Non-registered users should call or write for details.

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All timing tests performed by an independent ti->ting organization on a 12-pagc
document using a Macintosh SE and a 20 megabyte naru disk.

* Number determined by Macintosh system constraints.

© 1988 T/Maker Company. Alt rights reserved. The following .ire reeistered and
unr^stered tradenuirKs of the companies listed: WriteNow, licensea to
T/Maker Co.; Macintosh, Apple Computer, Inc.; MacWrite, Claris Corp.;

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